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Date:      Tue, 16 Oct 2007 12:59:19 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        "YoctoGram" <yoctogram@gmail.com>
Cc:        Shteryana Shopova <syrinx@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, Alexander Leidinger <netchild@FreeBSD.org>, "Constantine A. Murenin" <cnst@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: I backed out the sensors framework 
Message-ID:  <12649.1192539559@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 16 Oct 2007 08:54:50 -0400." <01fb01c80ff3$be1f48d0$6401a8c0@Mewtwo> 

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In message <01fb01c80ff3$be1f48d0$6401a8c0@Mewtwo>, "YoctoGram" writes:
>
>> Now, who are you, and what is your role in this ?
>
>Well, I'm just a BSD OS lurker/fan.
>I really like netBSD.
>But the FreeBSD ZFS port caught my attention lately (despite the on going 
>ZFS lawsuit).
>
>Thanks for the clarifications, and I apologise for the disruption.
>
>Based on the following:
>
>>> If you compare at NetBSD, OpenBSD and FreeBSD, you will find a quite
>>> visible difference in the architectural attitude the projects take
>>> to various problems.
>
>I had the feelings that the 'backed out' was motivated by "BSD politics" 
>rather than tech merits.

Well, it's a mix really, and the politics is FreeBSD politics not
inter-BSD politics.

I think the BSD systems have been around each other long enough to
recognize that something may be a perfect fit for one BSD and a
total mess in another.

-- 
Poul-Henning Kamp       | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
phk@FreeBSD.ORG         | TCP/IP since RFC 956
FreeBSD committer       | BSD since 4.3-tahoe    
Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.



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