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Subject: Re: The future of NetBSD
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On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Gilles Chehade wrote:

> 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 ?

I'd rather have Adaptec provide a source code driver for their cards 
directly, then have Scott Long have to fight with unavailability of 
documentation itself ... if the driver works, what do we need 
documentation for?