From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 10 17:55:54 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 507B416A4CE for ; Wed, 10 Dec 2003 17:55:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from lakemtao02.cox.net (lakemtao02.cox.net [68.1.17.243]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D782143D2B for ; Wed, 10 Dec 2003 17:55:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eqe@cox.net) Received: from merlin ([68.110.209.157]) by lakemtao02.cox.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.05 201-253-122-130-105-20030824) with ESMTP id <20031211015550.UMEE2297.lakemtao02.cox.net@merlin>; Wed, 10 Dec 2003 20:55:50 -0500 From: eqe@cox.net Organization: Dark Ronin To: Garance A Drosihn Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 20:57:04 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <200312092243.02269.eqe@cox.net> <200312100454.13107.eqe@cox.net> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200312102057.04850.eqe@cox.net> cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: why support alpha?? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 01:55:54 -0000 On Wednesday 10 December 2003 17:26, you wrote: > At 4:54 AM -0500 12/10/03, eqe@cox.net wrote: > >Yes, you have a point here but I never said alpha hackers > >are working in vain. I merely tryed to imply that their > >efforts could better serve the freebsd community by > >concentrating our efforts on just platforms that are > >more mainstream in the server market. > > You are welcome to "serve" the FreeBSD community in any > way you choose. But people volunteer their time and > their effort to work on what they want to work on. > > Also note that the "FreeBSD community" does include people > who are running FreeBSD on Alpha machines. Thus, the > developers that work on FreeBSD/Alpha are *already* serving > the "FreeBSD community", and doing a good job of it. > > Me, I am not directly interested in alpha. That means I > and not spending *my* time and *my* money (for hardware) > on Alpha. Philosophically though, I'm happy when there > are FreeBSD developers who spend *their* time on it. > > As long as there are a critical mass of developers who are > doing the work for FreeBSD/Alpha, then I see no reason why > we would want to drive them away. again I am not trying to drive them anywhere and I too see their value but their are other more important issues for 5.2 then alpha like smp.