Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1999 08:59:05 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Cc: sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: All this muttering about support from Sun. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901070850490.37756-100000@bright.fx.genx.net> In-Reply-To: <613.915693995@zippy.cdrom.com>
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On Wed, 6 Jan 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > Hey all, > > I don't subscribe to this mailing list (I get way too much already) > but I did catch some of the discussion on one of the mail2news sites > and can only say that I find some of what's been discussed so far to > be just a little alarming. I'm also not sure that my role in > "rejecting" SME's original offer was all that properly characterized, > and the two points are related, so let me see if I can't explain some > of the history here and attempt to put things in perspective: > > First off, I'd like it to be well understood by everyone that when you > approach any vendor for FreeBSD-related resources, no matter how big > or small, you're essentially now representing the project as far as > that vendor is concerned and they're just as likely to assume you're > project leadership or something given that most companies are > typically pretty confused about how the whole free software world is > led and who the key players are (I can't say I'm always all that sure > myself). The danger of misrepresenting or overselling the project is > a large reason why the original deal with SME was turned down. [very encouraging but keep it to yourselves stuff cut] Not to worry oh fearless leader, the only contact i will be making for while is with www.barnsandnoble.com to order some more books. I do need to get ahold of some "PC intern" sort of book though, although i doubt such a thing exists for sparc. (operfirmware calls and peripheral programming specs) I may be contacting sun for pointers to such referancfe books, but not in any FreeBSD affiliated way. I don't know how much of the archive of -sparc you read, but most of my messages were along the lines of "i'm not going to make a bing stink until we are MUCH farther along" I'm not doing this to embarass myself :) I hope this alleviates some of your concerns. -Alfred (X pkg manager real soon now) > - Jordan > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message
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