From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Nov 30 19:59:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA07307 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 19:59:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from measles.ecst.csuchico.edu (measles.ecst.csuchico.edu [132.241.4.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA07299 for ; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 19:59:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cyber@ecst.csuchico.edu) From: cyber@ecst.csuchico.edu Received: (qmail 25922 invoked by uid 3300); 30 Nov 1998 19:59:28 -0800 Message-ID: <19981201035928.25921.qmail@measles.ecst.csuchico.edu> Subject: Re: Merging Net/Free/Open-BSD together against Linux To: tv@pobox.com (Todd Vierling) Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 19:59:27 -3200 (PST) Cc: netbsd-advocacy@NetBSD.ORG, FreeBSD-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, advocacy@openbsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Todd Vierling" at Nov 29, 98 05:23:36 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Todd Vierling wrote: ] ] On Sun, 29 Nov 1998 cyber@ecst.csuchico.edu wrote: ] ] : 1. Agree on a new API ] ] You sound like you're proposing an ABI, not an API. In general, all three ] BSDs have the same API, which is Net/2 and 4.4BSD based. ] ] So, `sounds like 86open.' Yeah, that went over well. (Their site, ] www.telly.org/86open/, has not been updated since November 1997.) ] Yeah, ABI is more accurate. I did say that it was an off the cuff idea and that i didnt even support the idea, I could go of on hundreds of points on why it wont work at this time, despite be a technologically 'neat' idea. (I hadn't even taken a look at 86open.) -=erik. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message