From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Mar 17 15:37:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 850681520E for ; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 15:37:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id IAA13795; Thu, 18 Mar 1999 08:37:46 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <36F03A26.847D9870@newsguy.com> Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 08:26:31 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Garance A Drosihn , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Apple's open source... References: <98505.921711276@zippy.cdrom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: > > > Other than complaining on how FreeBSD and NetBSD were not really given > > enough credit in the press releases for this, how do people think this > > Apple strategy will work out wrt *BSD's? > > If Apple actually contributes code back, I won't actually care so > much what their PR dept. does or does not acknowledge. It would be > *very nice* to get public acknowledgement, don't get me wrong, but > there are all kinds of "technology partners" out there and the ones > who contribute technical assistance (bug fixes, reports, etc) are > just as valuable in their own way. Moreover, the point to many of us is getting *high quality code* to be used/available. I think this has been accomplished. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "What happened?" "It moved, sir!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message