Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 19:33:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@wasabisystems.com> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com>, freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Competition Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008201930560.20863-100000@beppo.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <87d7j3lf4g.fsf@snark.piermont.com>
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On 20 Aug 2000, Perry E. Metzger wrote: > > > From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com> > > > > This is very true, though fortunately only half-true. The resources > > for doing a quality FreeBSD/sparc port are actually present in the > > community, they're just lying dormant, like gophers in the winter. :) > > You mean "The NetBSD code base is easy enough to copy and call our > own. Why don't we just do it. Surely they aren't going to complain -- > after all, it is all open source. It worked for Alpha, after all." I don't think that this is a fair characterization, Perry. The FreeBSD port bootstrapped itself this way, but has changed significantly since then. Snide comments ill-become you. > By the way, those wanting to run an open source BSD on a Sparc today > can just download our stuff. It works. Its clean. It is in no obvious > way inferior to anything you could possibly produce after a large > amount of your own effort taking our code. If there are things you > don't like about the way it works, we happily take fixes. See other mail as to why this might not be the right approach for FreeBSD. As soon as I get more cycles, Perry, I plan to help the sparc64 NetBSD port along. I see it as a separate project from anything in FreeBSD. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message
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