Date: 17 Jun 2001 03:46:27 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> To: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> Cc: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>, "Rahul Siddharthan" <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>, <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Mundie, Perens, GPL, BSD etc again Message-ID: <xzpvglv98uk.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: <p0510030bb751b0d4db9a@[194.78.241.123]> References: <000001c0f6b2$85e71760$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> <p0510030bb751b0d4db9a@[194.78.241.123]>
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Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> writes: > There are lots of extremely successful cars that have re-used > the base platform of other cars. Indeed, much of the entire bloody > car industry is built around this fact. If you want to fault VW for > doing this, then you have to damn the entire rest of the world along > with it. Indeed. If I recall correctly, the Mazda MX5 - the most successful open-top roadster in history, surpassing even the MGB - is based on the 323 (GLC in the US) drivetrain and an upgraded 626 engine, though the body is (or was, back in 1990) entirely new. 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
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