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From: Christoph Haas <haas@willi.lion.de>
To: jbryant@tfs.net
Cc: dennis <dennis@etinc.com>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Commercial vendors registry
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On Sun, 13 Apr 1997, Jim Bryant wrote:

> Who here has seen "The Life of Brian"?  

Me ;-)

> This topic sounds like a
> meeting of the People's Front of Judea [officials]!  But you keep
> talking like this, you may as well be the the Crack Suicide Squad of
> the Judean People's Front!!!  The point is, get up off your @sses and
> get commercial support, stop talking about it!
> 
> Do you think Bill Gates got where he is today by debating for three
> years on whether or not to take action?  Or for that matter, the same
> for the lamers using Lin[s]ux!!!!

Allright. Now that I've followed the discussion for a while, I'm going to
setup a registration desk for commercial vendors. Its success depends of
whether you (the developers) try to help me a little bit or not. All I ask
from you is to leave me a little note if you break something seriuosly. I
will follow the normal commit messages and maybe I'm forwarding and
filtering them (Joerg's idea) to vendors that subscribed to a special
service ("notification service for code-breaking commits from hell" ;-)

I'm pretty flexible now, 'cause I haven't started it yet, so I want to
hear some thoughts about which services you want to see provided to
commercial vendors. Please don't follow up to THIS posting if you aren't
interested in it.

Thanks...

	Christoph