Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 21:50:42 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Cc: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, mjacob@feral.com, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMP discussion moving to freebsd-smp Message-ID: <55430.961530642@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 20 Jun 2000 13:40:35 MDT." <200006201940.NAA20840@nomad.yogotech.com>
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In message <200006201940.NAA20840@nomad.yogotech.com>, Nate Williams writes: >> >> attitude, having been one of the primary people through the >> >> 1.0 to 2.0 transition I know how many developers that cost us. >> > >> >And how many would that be? I don't remember the masses leaving us >> >because of the 1.0 -> 2.0 transition, but because of the lawsuit. >> >> I recently had reason to go through all the news archives and mail >> archives such as they exist, and we lost *a lot* of people between >> 1.1.5.1 and 2.0. Most seem to have gravitated to Linux. > >Again, was that because of the 'current does build' problem, or because >of the lawsuit? Basically because we couldn't provide them with a set of boot floppies so they could do any development on their machines. I don't know if you remember the clamour there were when we had the first "this almost installs a v2 machine" floppies out through the door, otherwise read your archives :-) >I'd argue that the lawsuit had most to do with it, which is the reason >for the 1.x -> 2.0 move. No, monthlong disruption of peoples ability to install and develop was the main reason. Basically as a developer FreeBSD didn't really exist in that period. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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