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From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
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 > Another issue is control, and this generally applies to larger scale
 > developments. We wrote our own PPP for our sync cards, for example, because
 > it became impossible to support and control a product that was in one case
 > owned by someone else (BSDI) and public in another (FreeBSD) and just plain
 > messed up in another (Linux). Now we have one product for all three, a
 > portable product, that we control. Development costs were about $15,000.,
 > and we're not going to share the source, not because we're mean, bad guys
 > but if we do someone will port it over to someone elses board and we will be
 > helping to create a competitor. As a commercial vendor its the only way to
 > do things.
 > 

Many have contributed to this effort so you may use our code and
by enlarge all this effort has been given to you.  

Well, I will stop here not because I don't have a lot to say but
in the interest of co-operation.

	Amancio