From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Oct 3 10:30:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA28631 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sat, 3 Oct 1998 10:30:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA28607 for ; Sat, 3 Oct 1998 10:30:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: (from brett@localhost) by lariat.lariat.org (8.8.8/8.8.6) id LAA16921; Sat, 3 Oct 1998 11:30:02 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.1.19981003112725.040e8860@mail.lariat.org> X-Sender: brett@mail.lariat.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Sat, 03 Oct 1998 11:29:06 -0600 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Device Drivers for Linux and Intel's annoucement Cc: Nicholas Charles Brawn , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <13601.907434620@time.cdrom.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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