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On 1/4/2011 8:44 AM, John Baldwin wrote:
>
> Actually, there are three different companies funding the IB port because
> there are in fact multiple users of IB on FreeBSD.  It seems silly to have
> three+ different versions of the IB stack maintained separately rather than
> pooling developer resources across multiple FreeBSD consumers to amortize the
> future maintenance costs.
>

Hear, Hear!

To a certain degree these three companies are competitors, but in the 
case of having a working IB stack, it benefits us all to have a common one.