From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 14 00:03:09 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id AAA03147 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 14 Mar 1995 00:03:09 -0800 Received: from casparc.ppp.net (casparc.ppp.net [194.64.12.35]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id AAA03141 for ; Tue, 14 Mar 1995 00:03:06 -0800 Received: from ernie by casparc.ppp.net with uucp (Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0roRYH-000HzxC; Tue, 14 Mar 95 09:02 MET Received: by ernie.altona.hamburg.com (Smail3.1.29.0 #15) id m0roR9F-0002OfC; Tue, 14 Mar 95 08:36 WET Message-Id: From: hm@ernie.altona.hamburg.com (Hellmuth Michaelis) Subject: Re: BSD Consortium To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD Hackers) Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1995 08:36:09 +0100 (MET) In-Reply-To: <9503132212.AA01770@olympus> from "Boyd Faulkner" at Mar 13, 95 04:12:59 pm Reply-To: hm@altona.hamburg.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1158 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >From the keyboard of Boyd Faulkner: > > Does anyone know if the NetBSD people are interested in a consortium? > If not, the appeal is lessened... for me at least. >From the previous messages i got the impression that FreeBSD people wanted to start a BSD consortium - that doesn't make sense to me. ALL the FreeBSD, NetBSD and BSDI users/groups/companies should be willing and agreeing to form such a consortium! IMHO, what we need is an _independent_ consortium, with a "CEO" (don't know the correct word for that position) who is respected in all camps (FreeBSD,NetBSD,BSDI), who is able to talk to all of these, and who has a (personal) interest in BSD evolution with _common_ inter- faces. What i expect from such a consortium (and what bothers me most these days) is a standardization of programming interfaces, lkm's, device driver interfaces and shared libs between all (at least between NetBSD and FreeBSD) the camps. Perhaps someone should talk to Kirk McKusick et al ? hellmuth -- Hellmuth Michaelis hm@altona.hamburg.com Hamburg, Europe (A)bort, (R)etry, (I)nstall BSD ?