Date: Sat, 03 Oct 1998 11:29:06 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Nicholas Charles Brawn <ncb05@uow.edu.au>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Device Drivers for Linux and Intel's annoucement Message-ID: <4.1.19981003112725.040e8860@mail.lariat.org> In-Reply-To: <13601.907434620@time.cdrom.com> References: <Your message of "Sat, 03 Oct 1998 10:58:39 MDT." <4.1.19981003105717.041c3760@mail.lariat.org>
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At 10:10 AM 10/3/98 -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >> Unfortunately, the only way to do this is to cut into Walnut Creek's >> sales, in effect hurting its current efforts. I suspect that the reason >> there have not been alternative distributions (other than a token effort >> by Cheap Bytes) is that people do not want to do this. > >I doubt that any businessman who saw a buck in this would have such >qualms at all. Ah, but these people are sensitive to more than the issue of making a buck. They recognize that one of FreeBSD's strengths is that it's not a fragmented effort, and do not wish to hurt the product as much as they help it. --Brett Glass To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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