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Date:      Fri, 01 Sep 2006 00:24:27 +0200
From:      Gilles Chehade <veins@evilkittens.org>
To:        "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@freebsd.org>
Cc:        misc@openbsd.org, Harpalus a Como <harpalus.como@gmail.com>, "Constantine A. Murenin" <mureninc@gmail.com>, Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de>, netbsd-users@netbsd.org, miros-discuss@mirbsd.org, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: The future of NetBSD
Message-ID:  <44F7619B.8010609@evilkittens.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060831184715.B82634@hub.org>
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Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>>
>> I doubt that'll be productive -- NetBSD, FreeBSD and OpenBSD have all
>> different goals...
>
> Even at the kernel level?  Look at device drivers and vendors as one 
> example ... companies like adaptec have to write *one* device driver, 
> for, what, 50+ distributions of linux ... for us, they need to write 
> one for FreeBSD, one for NetBSD, one for OpenBSD, and *now* one for 
> DragonflyBSD ... if we had *at least* a common API for that sort of 
> stuff, it might be asier to get support at the vendor level, no?
>

How would a common API provide more support from the vendor ? What does 
the API have to do with releasing documentation ?




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