From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sun Sep 20 21:56:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA26488 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Sun, 20 Sep 1998 21:56:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [209.133.7.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA26480 for ; Sun, 20 Sep 1998 21:56:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA02820; Sun, 20 Sep 1998 21:55:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Message-Id: <199809210455.VAA02820@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Mike Smith cc: "Pedro F. Giffuni" , advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: More on the Intel-UNIX standard In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 20 Sep 1998 21:40:54 PDT." <199809210440.VAA03200@word.smith.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 21:55:44 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > You're not demonstrating the symptoms. I really don't think so and you have resorted to the lowest rational and immature level -- time to get some sleep 8) > > Curious , what are the reasons that the UDI project is preferring to do the > > UDI implementation on Linux ? > > Mindshare. There are more rabid Linux fans in the right places than > there are FreeBSD fans. The decision to use Linux wasn't reached out > of any considered or rational process, rather it was siezed on as the > "only" free platform to do the reference implementation to. Now this is good stuff and is very tempting to intervene. > > I haven't said anything about this previously simply because I haven't > had the time to do the scutwork, nor have I been successful in > encouraging the few contacts that I have within Project UDI to put the > proposal forward. You have outlined for us what we are up against and that is a very good start. Amancio To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message