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Date:      20 Aug 2000 18:52:31 -0400
From:      "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@wasabisystems.com>
To:        jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com (Jordan K. Hubbard), freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Competition
Message-ID:  <87d7j3lf4g.fsf@snark.piermont.com>
In-Reply-To: Darren Reed's message of "Mon, 21 Aug 2000 08:12:23 %2B1000 (EST)"
References:  <200008202212.IAA08232@avalon.reed.wattle.id.au>

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> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com>
> 
> This is very true, though fortunately only half-true.  The resources
> for doing a quality FreeBSD/sparc port are actually present in the
> community, they're just lying dormant, like gophers in the winter. :)

You mean "The NetBSD code base is easy enough to copy and call our
own. Why don't we just do it. Surely they aren't going to complain --
after all, it is all open source. It worked for Alpha, after all."

By the way, those wanting to run an open source BSD on a Sparc today
can just download our stuff. It works. Its clean. It is in no obvious
way inferior to anything you could possibly produce after a large
amount of your own effort taking our code. If there are things you
don't like about the way it works, we happily take fixes.


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Perry E. Metzger		perry@wasabisystems.com
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