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Subject: Re: [SUGGEST] Reform eclipse and eclipse related ports
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It might be worth checking out the DragonFly BSD project:

http://www.dragonflybsd.org/main/

Mark Linimon wrote:
> 
> If you, personally, want to set up an entity that develops a FreeBSD-
> based product with a feature set defined on a completely user-driven
> basis (e.g. something like a "Linux distro"), feel free to do so.  IMHO
> you would be meeting a lot of people's needs.  I would even hope that you
> could make a solid commercial entity out of it.  If it had a good enough
> business model, I would probably even send you a resume.
> 

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Phil Helms
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