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From: Kenneth Culver <culverk@sweetdreamsracing.biz>
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Subject: Re: why support alpha??
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Quoting Eriq Lamar <eqe@cox.net>:

> On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 22:53, David O'Brien wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 10:43:02PM -0500, eqe@cox.net wrote:
> > > Isn't alpha dead? Why bother supporting them in 5.2 it seems like wasted
> > > energy. Yes people still use it but for them there is 4.9 which works
> > > fine. You could better serve the freebsd community by focusing on the
> > > future of computing like amd64, great dual support, better drivers, etc.
> > > and most people know this, so why not let alpha die. I personally like
> > > alpha but it has no future.
> >
> >
> > What is the purpose of this email?!?
> 1. why not read the message body I think I explained it in plain
> english.
> > So what's your point?
> 2. for my point read 1.
>

Sending mail like this is pretty much flamebait. Alpha is not dead, and last I
heard whoever owns rights to it this week is still releasing new hardware,
although they aren't hyping it at all.

Ken