Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 20:46:47 -0500 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pfg1+@pitt.edu> To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org, Robert Lipe <robertl@sco.com> Subject: Re: UDI environment now released. Message-ID: <3A8B3507.EE5635DF@pitt.edu> References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0102141445540.22117-100000@zeppo.feral.com>
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------BD741A52722152D36DCF142A Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The differences are still there, and it's usually soo tough to get companies to provide drivers for FreeBSD. Yeah IBM GPL'd some winmodems, no one has mentioned a FreeBSD port... Although the issue might be political, UDI might be the way to finally get over the "designed only for windows ..and sometimes other OSs" type of hardware. Special kudos to Robert Lipe for recognizing the value the FreeBSD community can have in the adoption of new, truly open, standards! Pedro. Matthew Jacob wrote: > ... > > The problem is that at the time this was a huge issue there were a much larger > number of machines and pieces of h/w and radically different OS's (or flavors > within Unix even) to support. Such a wide set of differences is not really > there any more, hence the cost of such support (and the style in which it is > being done) makes less sense than it used to. > > -matt > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message --------------BD741A52722152D36DCF142A Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="pfg1.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Pedro F. Giffuni Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="pfg1.vcf" begin:vcard n:Giffuni;Pedro tel;fax:1 (360) 343-0501 tel;home:(412) 665 2956 tel;work:(412) 624-9862 x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:http://www.geocities.com/giffunip/ org:University of Pittsburgh;Industrial Engineering adr:;;5820 Elwood St. Apt. 34;Pittsburgh;PA;15232;USA version:2.1 email;internet:giffunip@asme.org title:Teaching Assistant fn:Pedro F. Giffuni end:vcard --------------BD741A52722152D36DCF142A-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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