Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1996 13:53:28 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: green@fang.cs.sunyit.edu (Charles Green) Cc: smpatel@wam.umd.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: UNIX Sound SystemTM (USS) Lite (Formerly VoxWare) Message-ID: <199603302053.NAA09714@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199603301814.NAA01406@fang.cs.sunyit.edu> from "Charles Green" at Mar 30, 96 01:14:36 pm
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> Ok, I can agree with keeping the old version (3.5?). But is it > particularly necessary to continue a separate developement? This could > result in diverging APIs. I understand that the idea is to keep the same > API but people's best intentions have a tendancy to get lost. Hanuu will > add a feature, the FreeBSD developer says "Hey, we don't need that. But we > do need xxxx". Now we have two different diverging APIs. Not to mention > adding more work for someone out there in FreeBSD land. > What I suggest, if possible, create a port to add support for USS > Lite. There has to be a compromise, somewhere. I really don't think we > should just say "We will NEVER use it!". That's like cutting your nose > off to spite your face. A port or a package? Remember that it is impossible to distribute a precompiled LKM under the new terms. > Perhaps we should consult Hannu before continuing this debate? > After all, there are no commercial incarnations of FreeBSD. What happens when there are? I know that much of the code is seeing commercial use in bits and pieces elsewhere. Much of my FS work is a side effect of work I am paid for by my employer (we've ported the Heidemann FS framework to Windows 95), and I would be suprised if some of the networking code weren't in the same boat. Certainly, the free install comes from work Jordan gets paid for, directly or indirectly, by Walnut Creek. Just because there is not a commercial distribution, like Caldera's Linux (or there isn't yet, anway), doesn't mean that we should back ourselves into a corner prohibiting something like that *ever* happening by making a compromize agreement with Hannu to get wider distribution rights. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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