Date: Sat, 11 Oct 1997 10:29:54 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG>, dkelly@hiwaay.net Subject: Re: Linux vs freeBSD Message-ID: <199710111729.KAA08510@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 11 Oct 1997 19:19:02 %2B0930." <199710110949.TAA01174@word.smith.net.au>
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>From The Desk Of Mike Smith : > This is hard. I guess you can cover the fact that FreeBSD has on some > occasions been able to leverage the information obtained by Linux > developers in order to create and/or improve drivers, but the Linux > driver model and typical source code license is such that it's hard to > "share" drivers. 1. We share the X distribution 2. We share the linux sound driver distribution well granted not as much these days. 3. We share the Bt848 video capture driver -- our Bt848 driver has been ported to BSDI and Linux Its a lot easier to share drivers with the linux crowd if we start the development . Amancio
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