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In-Reply-To: <9971.854322113@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Jan 26, 97 03:41:53 pm"
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Jordan K. Hubbard writes:
> I don't think that the problems are technical so much as political,
> something which generally sucks given that the last thing the free
> software community needs to be doing is shooting its feet off and
> generally handing the boys at microsoft an even more overwhelming
> advantage ("you can't crush us!  hah! we plan to commit suicide
> through sheer stupidity and ego way before we'll let that happen!" :-)
>
> Oh well.  Sigh! :-)

Well, to be fair, Gary Jennejohn replied and told me that this related
to ppp, which I don't use.  I think the problem there is that not many
people use ppp over here, so it's not surprising that it's taking a
long time.

In that connection, you may be interested to know that I finally
succeeded in getting a Teles card to somebody in the US who plans to
use it with FreeBSD.  He's a device driver engineer who works for
Tandem in Austin, and I won't mention his name until I have his
permission to do so, but he's a member of a startup planning to build
an intelligent ISDN router.  I'd guess that he will also contribute to
the FreeBSD effort, which should open it up to a wider audience.  I'll
ask him to announce himself if he wants.

Greg