Date: 17 Jun 2001 02:50:09 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: "Brad Knowles" <brad.knowles@skynet.be>, "Rahul Siddharthan" <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>, <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Mundie, Perens, GPL, BSD etc again Message-ID: <xzpelsk9bge.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: <000001c0f6b2$85e71760$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> References: <000001c0f6b2$85e71760$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>
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"Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> writes: > This just proves my point. With the new-bug, now your saying that > VW didn't even _bother_ to design a new vehicle, they just slapped > different fiberglass on the top of a chassis they were already > grinding out. It's been something like thirty or forty years since car manufacturers stopped building cars with separate body and chassis, except for some high-end roadsters, so no, they didn't "just slap different fiberglass on top of a chassis they were already grinding out". What they probably did (I don't know much about Volkswagens, and even less about the new-bug, so I'm guessing) was build a tried-and-true engine, transmission and suspension into a new body, which was probably designed with the same basic layout and dimensions as the Golf to reduce development and production costs. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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