Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 20:57:04 -0500 From: eqe@cox.net To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: why support alpha?? Message-ID: <200312102057.04850.eqe@cox.net> In-Reply-To: <p06002042bbfd46f9067b@[128.113.24.47]> References: <200312092243.02269.eqe@cox.net> <200312100454.13107.eqe@cox.net> <p06002042bbfd46f9067b@[128.113.24.47]>
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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.
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