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Date:      Sat, 03 Oct 1998 11:29:06 -0600
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc:        Nicholas Charles Brawn <ncb05@uow.edu.au>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Device Drivers for Linux and Intel's annoucement 
Message-ID:  <4.1.19981003112725.040e8860@mail.lariat.org>
In-Reply-To: <13601.907434620@time.cdrom.com>
References:  <Your message of "Sat, 03 Oct 1998 10:58:39 MDT."             <4.1.19981003105717.041c3760@mail.lariat.org>

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At 10:10 AM 10/3/98 -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
 
>> Unfortunately, the only way to do this is to cut into Walnut Creek's
>> sales, in effect hurting its current efforts. I suspect that the reason
>> there have not been alternative distributions (other than a token effort
>> by Cheap Bytes) is that people do not want to do this.
>
>I doubt that any businessman who saw a buck in this would have such
>qualms at all.  

Ah, but these people are sensitive to more than the issue of making a
buck. They recognize that one of FreeBSD's strengths is that it's
not a fragmented effort, and do not wish to hurt the product as much as
they help it.

--Brett Glass


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