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From: Heikki Suonsivu <hsu@cs.hut.fi>
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To: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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In-Reply-To: Christoph Kukulies's message of 10 Mar 1995 10:13:19 +0200
Subject: Re: BSD Consortium? (where is the original?)
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Otaniemi, Finland
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Could someone please repost the original "BSD Consortium"
message? It got lost to me.
The thread started from this one:
> From hsu@cs.hut.fi Sat Mar 11 00:27:05 1995
> Path: elvis.clinet.fi!elvis.clinet.fi!not-for-mail
> From: Heikki Suonsivu <hsu@cs.hut.fi>
> Newsgroups: clinet.list.freebsd-hackers
> Subject: New Cyclades Driver needs Major Device #?
> Date: 8 Mar 1995 16:36:19 +0200
> Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Otaniemi, Finland
> Lines: 36
> Sender: news@elvis.clinet.fi
> Approved: freebsd-hackers@clinet.fi
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> In-reply-to: brian@MediaCity.com's message of 8 Mar 1995 08:18:44 +0200
> To: brian@MediaCity.com (Brian Litzinger)
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... discussion about major numbers for Cyclades driver
> p.s.s. while I'm here anyway, why are netBSD and FreeBSD different efforts?
>
> Well, there are several possible reasons:
>
> - Linux people's secret plan to make sure *BSD won't ever be successfull.
>
> - USL's secret plan to make sure free operating systems won't ever be
> successfull.
>
> - BSDI's secret plan to make sure free BSD versions won't ever be
> successfull.
>
> - Free operating system authors have got too much ego.
>
> I'll promise to donate $100 of my own, and, say $400 of my company money to
> BSD (or Free operating system) Consortium if one will ever be set up to get
> rid of this mess.
>
> --
> Heikki Suonsivu, T{ysikuu 10 C 83/02210 Espoo/FINLAND,
> hsu@cs.hut.fi home +358-0-8031121 work -4513377 fax -4555276 riippu SN
Some of the replies have only ended up into my mailbox. None of them
contains a sum less than $100.
I don't strongly oppose there to be different efforts, just that they
coordinate the interfaces and the base Berkeley source code heritage
instead of disintegrating them. A consortium dedicated to do this
coordination a'la X would seem to be a workable concept (I guess everything
else has already been tried).
--
Heikki Suonsivu, T{ysikuu 10 C 83/02210 Espoo/FINLAND,
hsu@cs.hut.fi home +358-0-8031121 work -4513377 fax -4555276 riippu SN