Date: 20 Aug 2000 18:52:31 -0400 From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@wasabisystems.com> To: jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com (Jordan K. Hubbard), freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Competition Message-ID: <87d7j3lf4g.fsf@snark.piermont.com> In-Reply-To: Darren Reed's message of "Mon, 21 Aug 2000 08:12:23 %2B1000 (EST)" References: <200008202212.IAA08232@avalon.reed.wattle.id.au>
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> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com> > > This is very true, though fortunately only half-true. The resources > for doing a quality FreeBSD/sparc port are actually present in the > community, they're just lying dormant, like gophers in the winter. :) You mean "The NetBSD code base is easy enough to copy and call our own. Why don't we just do it. Surely they aren't going to complain -- after all, it is all open source. It worked for Alpha, after all." By the way, those wanting to run an open source BSD on a Sparc today can just download our stuff. It works. Its clean. It is in no obvious way inferior to anything you could possibly produce after a large amount of your own effort taking our code. If there are things you don't like about the way it works, we happily take fixes. -- Perry E. Metzger perry@wasabisystems.com -- Quality NetBSD Sales, Support & Service. http://www.wasabisystems.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message
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