From owner-freebsd-net Wed Aug 26 18:17:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA03712 for freebsd-net-outgoing; Wed, 26 Aug 1998 18:17:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA03645 for <"freebsd-net@"@FreeBSD.ORG>; Wed, 26 Aug 1998 18:17:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) id VAA07223; Wed, 26 Aug 1998 21:16:11 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 21:16:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <199808270116.VAA07223@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: moncrg@ma.ultranet.com Cc: Marc Giannoni , "freebsd-net@"@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NETCCITT sources In-Reply-To: <35E49BB9.BF3CB38B@ma.ultranet.com> References: <35E49BB9.BF3CB38B@ma.ultranet.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org < said: > you'd think that it wouldn't be a big issue > since Net/Open BSDs still have it They also have VAX support, which is another thing we don't consider to be worth the effort. > Of course by dropping it FreeBSD is losing > some of its heritage... Not really. OSI was something that was kluged in by Berkeley fairly late in the game, when people still thought it might actually be used by somebody. XNS is far closer to being BSD heritage (since it was the original proof-of-concept that the socket framework was capable of supporting multiple protocols), and only one cranky ISV complained about its loss. > I'd really prefer to stick with FreeBSD > but might be forced to consider Net/Open... Don't think we consider this threatening. There are some things they are able to support that we don't want to -- such is life. We have no desire to see anyone unhappy; if you have an application for which their codebase is a better match than ours, by all means, use it! -GAWollman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message