Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
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]>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
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




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?xzpvglv98uk.fsf>