Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 10:19:26 -0400 From: Bill Fumerola <billf@chimesnet.com> To: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@wasabisystems.com> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com>, freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Competition Message-ID: <20000821101926.Y65562@jade.chc-chimes.com> In-Reply-To: <87d7j3lf4g.fsf@snark.piermont.com>; from perry@wasabisystems.com on Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 06:52:31PM -0400 References: <200008202212.IAA08232@avalon.reed.wattle.id.au> <87d7j3lf4g.fsf@snark.piermont.com>
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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
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