From owner-freebsd-sparc Sun Aug 20 15:52:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from snark.piermont.com (snark.piermont.com [206.1.51.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21E5D37B43C; Sun, 20 Aug 2000 15:52:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: by snark.piermont.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id EB11E1E00C8; Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:52:31 -0400 (EDT) From: "Perry E. Metzger" To: jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com (Jordan K. Hubbard), freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Competition References: <200008202212.IAA08232@avalon.reed.wattle.id.au> Date: 20 Aug 2000 18:52:31 -0400 In-Reply-To: Darren Reed's message of "Mon, 21 Aug 2000 08:12:23 +1000 (EST)" Message-ID: <87d7j3lf4g.fsf@snark.piermont.com> Lines: 22 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.6 Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" > > 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