From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 14 12:55:34 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id MAA00402 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 14 Mar 1995 12:55:34 -0800 Received: from devnull.mpd.tandem.com (devnull.mpd.tandem.com [131.124.4.29]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA00394 for ; Tue, 14 Mar 1995 12:55:29 -0800 Received: from olympus by devnull.mpd.tandem.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id NAA29146; Tue, 14 Mar 1995 13:09:41 -0600 Received: by olympus (4.1/TSS2.1) id AA02923; Tue, 14 Mar 95 13:08:10 CST From: faulkner@mpd.tandem.com (Boyd Faulkner) Message-Id: <9503141908.AA02923@olympus> Subject: Re: BSD Consortium To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1995 13:08:10 -0600 (CST) Cc: faulkner@devnull.mpd.tandem.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <9503140138.AA05524@cs.weber.edu> from "Terry Lambert" at Mar 13, 95 06:38:34 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL17] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1000 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > Does anyone know if the NetBSD people are interested in a consortium? > > If not, the appeal is lessened... for me at least. > > The initial list of goals I put up shouldn't step on any directional > toes, specifically to avoid any conflict between FreeBSD, NetBSD, or > BSDI (or anyone else who would be interested). > I am not so worried about the goals as if there is any interest in having common goals from the NetBSD side. A one member, FreeBSD, consortium would be pointless. If NetBSD is interested for any reason, then there is a point. I haven't heard anything that says that they are. If we cannot gain a united front on this issue, hunting for other members further from home is going to be much harder. Has the question been put before them? Boyd -- _______________________________________________________________________ Boyd Faulkner faulkner@isd.tandem.com _______________________________________________________________________