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Cc: misc@openbsd.org, Harpalus a Como <harpalus.como@gmail.com>,
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Subject: Re: The future of NetBSD
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Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>>
>> I doubt that'll be productive -- NetBSD, FreeBSD and OpenBSD have all
>> different goals...
>
> Even at the kernel level?  Look at device drivers and vendors as one 
> example ... companies like adaptec have to write *one* device driver, 
> for, what, 50+ distributions of linux ... for us, they need to write 
> one for FreeBSD, one for NetBSD, one for OpenBSD, and *now* one for 
> DragonflyBSD ... if we had *at least* a common API for that sort of 
> stuff, it might be asier to get support at the vendor level, no?
>

How would a common API provide more support from the vendor ? What does 
the API have to do with releasing documentation ?