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To: "Thierry.herbelot" <herbelot@cybercable.fr>
Cc: Didier Derny <didier@omnix.net>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD dead ? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 10 Mar 2000 21:53:54 +0100."
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Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 13:47:38 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>
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> For the FreeBSD project :
> - many more supported platforms (Sparc, PowerPC, Arm ?)
> - better Intel SMP ?
> - new developpers ?
> - increased credibility via the support network of BSDi ?

Hopefully all of those things, though just days after the merger is no
time to be making promises either.  All I can say is that each and
every one of the things you mention have been discussed in positive
terms.

> For BSD/OS :
> - better exposure thanks to OpenSource ?
> - Yahoo dollars ?
> - access to a greater community of **volunteer** testers ?

All these things and:

- the ability to provide support, training and consulting services
  to a much larger market

- More direct sharing of open source technologies and being able
  to leverage some of the rapid pace of innovation there; it's not
  just our testers which are valuable. :-)

- Jordan


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