From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Jun 16 18:46:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4DFF37B405 for ; Sat, 16 Jun 2001 18:46:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id DAA43009; Sun, 17 Jun 2001 03:46:28 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Brad Knowles Cc: "Ted Mittelstaedt" , "Rahul Siddharthan" , Subject: Re: Mundie, Perens, GPL, BSD etc again References: <000001c0f6b2$85e71760$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 17 Jun 2001 03:46:27 +0200 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Lines: 15 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brad Knowles writes: > There are lots of extremely successful cars that have re-used > the base platform of other cars. Indeed, much of the entire bloody > car industry is built around this fact. If you want to fault VW for > doing this, then you have to damn the entire rest of the world along > with it. Indeed. If I recall correctly, the Mazda MX5 - the most successful open-top roadster in history, surpassing even the MGB - is based on the 323 (GLC in the US) drivetrain and an upgraded 626 engine, though the body is (or was, back in 1990) entirely new. 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