From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 9 06:30:59 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id GAA09400 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 9 Mar 1995 06:30:59 -0800 Received: from rwwa.com (rwwa.com [198.115.177.3]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA09392 for ; Thu, 9 Mar 1995 06:30:57 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rwwa.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id JAA03705 for ; Thu, 9 Mar 1995 09:07:02 -0500 Message-Id: <199503091407.JAA03705@rwwa.com> X-Authentication-Warning: rwwa.com: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol X-Mailer: exmh version 1.5.3 12/28/94 To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: BSD Consortium? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 08 Mar 1995 11:18:11 MST." <9503081818.AA01327@cs.weber.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 09 Mar 1995 09:07:01 -0500 From: Robert Withrow Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Terry said: > Actually, this was first considered some time ago, and was discussed > at length by Robert Withrow, myself, and others. I probably have the news article I posted about it. At the time I proposed it `those who know everything' loudly lambasted it as the stupidest idea any mortal ever had. ``Just look how the X consortium has destroyed window systems!'' they said. Anyway, since I now use FreeBSD as the core platform for our systems, I would support (monetarily and orgainzationally) a ``vendor independent'' bsd consortium, along the lines of the X consortium. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Withrow, Tel: +1 617 598 4480, Fax: +1 617 598 4430 Net: witr@rwwa.COM R.W. Withrow Associates, 319 Lynnway Suite 201, Lynn MA 01901 USA