Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1995 08:36:09 +0100 (MET) From: hm@ernie.altona.hamburg.com (Hellmuth Michaelis) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD Hackers) Subject: Re: BSD Consortium Message-ID: <m0roR9F-0002OfC@ernie.altona.hamburg.com> In-Reply-To: <9503132212.AA01770@olympus> from "Boyd Faulkner" at Mar 13, 95 04:12:59 pm
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>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
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Hellmuth Michaelis hm@altona.hamburg.com Hamburg, Europe
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