Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 20:59:45 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, crb@ChrisBowman.com, rssh@grad.kiev.ua, dkelly@hiwaay.net, FreeBSD-Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Back to sysinstall (was Re: Fortran in the base system (was Re: sysinstall)) Message-ID: <199812182059.NAA09671@usr09.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <63474.914005842@zippy.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Dec 18, 98 10:30:42 am
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> > Are you willing to take a copy of something from Solaris or SCO? > > I'm willing to accept and evaluate anything that Sun or SCO wishes to > donate. I'm not willing to just copy their bits off a tape, or > someone's bit-for-bit clone of those bits, and start using them > without permission. What about someone's copy of their pacakge flat file formats, with clone (clean room from published documentation) versions of their package manipulation commands? I'm not talking about stealing their shell scripts, only using the same structural representation for data that they have historically proven works for solving this problem. It'd be a shame if the only past we could learn from was our own... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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