From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Dec 11 18:01:20 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA27439 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 11 Dec 1995 18:01:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.222.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA27434 for ; Mon, 11 Dec 1995 18:01:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id RAA17019; Mon, 11 Dec 1995 17:59:42 -0800 To: Terry Lambert cc: dennis@etinc.com, julian@freefall.freebsd.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FBSD support inc. In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 11 Dec 1995 13:09:54 MST." <199512112009.NAA01718@phaeton.artisoft.com> Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 17:59:42 -0800 Message-ID: <17017.818733582@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > Basically it's one of those double-edged swords, like merging with > > NetBSD. A lot of really enticing benefits on the surface but a host > > of sticky problems to solve underneath. > > Like how do you deal with suddenly running on 12 more platforms for > nearly free. No, it's how do you deal with suddenly being forced to do release engineering for 12 platforms where one was formerly enough to drive the release engineer to early retirement? :-) Jordan