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To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
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Subject: Re: Linux vs freeBSD 
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From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
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>From The Desk Of Mike Smith :
> This is hard.  I guess you can cover the fact that FreeBSD has on some 
> occasions been able to leverage the information obtained by Linux 
> developers in order to create and/or improve drivers, but the Linux 
> driver model and typical source code license is such that it's hard to 
> "share" drivers.

1. We share the X distribution

2. We share the linux sound driver distribution well granted not
   as much these days.

3. We share the Bt848 video capture driver -- our Bt848 driver has
   been ported to BSDI and Linux 

Its a lot easier to share drivers with the linux crowd if we start
the development .

	Amancio