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From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
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Subject: Re: UDI environment now released.
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> The differences are still there, and it's usually soo tough to get
> companies to provide drivers for FreeBSD. Yeah IBM GPL'd some
> winmodems, no one has mentioned a FreeBSD port...
> 
> Although the issue might be political, UDI might be the way to finally
> get over the "designed only for windows ..and sometimes other OSs"
> type of hardware.
> 
> Special kudos to Robert Lipe for recognizing the value the FreeBSD
> community can have in the adoption of new, truly open, standards!

I'll repeat what I've said before: "Over my dead body".

-matt




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