From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Jun 16 17:50:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A57A37B401 for ; Sat, 16 Jun 2001 17:50:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id CAA42800; Sun, 17 Jun 2001 02:50:09 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" Cc: "Brad Knowles" , "Rahul Siddharthan" , Subject: Re: Mundie, Perens, GPL, BSD etc again References: <000001c0f6b2$85e71760$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 17 Jun 2001 02:50:09 +0200 In-Reply-To: <000001c0f6b2$85e71760$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> Message-ID: Lines: 19 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Ted Mittelstaedt" writes: > This just proves my point. With the new-bug, now your saying that > VW didn't even _bother_ to design a new vehicle, they just slapped > different fiberglass on the top of a chassis they were already > grinding out. It's been something like thirty or forty years since car manufacturers stopped building cars with separate body and chassis, except for some high-end roadsters, so no, they didn't "just slap different fiberglass on top of a chassis they were already grinding out". What they probably did (I don't know much about Volkswagens, and even less about the new-bug, so I'm guessing) was build a tried-and-true engine, transmission and suspension into a new body, which was probably designed with the same basic layout and dimensions as the Golf to reduce development and production costs. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message