From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Aug 21 7:19:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from jade.chc-chimes.com (jade.chc-chimes.com [216.28.46.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBD4337B42C; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 07:19:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: by jade.chc-chimes.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 6D0DA1C69; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 10:19:26 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 10:19:26 -0400 From: Bill Fumerola To: "Perry E. Metzger" Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Competition Message-ID: <20000821101926.Y65562@jade.chc-chimes.com> References: <200008202212.IAA08232@avalon.reed.wattle.id.au> <87d7j3lf4g.fsf@snark.piermont.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <87d7j3lf4g.fsf@snark.piermont.com>; from perry@wasabisystems.com on Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 06:52:31PM -0400 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 06:52:31PM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote: > > 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." You[NetBSD] put the BSD license on it, not us. > -- > Quality NetBSD Sales, Support & Service. http://www.wasabisystems.com/ Normally I'd suspect a BSDi-sellout-commercialism dig at FreeBSD when these kinds of comments are made, but I guess they can't be made by the NetBSD people anymore[1]... -- Bill Fumerola - Network Architect, BOFH / Chimes, Inc. billf@chimesnet.com / billf@FreeBSD.org 1. Unless you make them _before_ announcing your own commercial support. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message