Marc G. Fournier dixit:
(Please don't keep individual persons in the Cc, only the lists,
otherwise people will get the mails several times.)
Put together a *BSD core ... representative from each camp and try and steer
the *kernel* itself towards a more common BSD ...
BSD is about an operating
Please don't Cc: people when you respond to mailing lists *sigh*
Marc G. Fournier dixit:
for us, they need to write
1. Companies don't write drivers for BSD
2. Companies don't even release specs so that people
can write drivers for BSD
//mirabile
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Marc G. Fournier dixit:
If the vendor is
bought up, bankrupt, out of business, dead (like that person
who ported g++ to Plan 9, whose window managers' copyright
is now set in stone), etc... you're SOL¹.
//mirabile
¹) wtf knows it
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(When do you stop putting people into Cc instead of just the lists?)
Marc G. Fournier dixit:
source code drivers provided by a
vendor, and supported by them
Yeah, and what if the vendor goes out of business, is bought
or simply bankrupt? You're pretty much SOL then.
//mirabile
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Marc G. Fournier dixit:
I'm curious here, but why did the *kernel* diverge for each project?
Because kernel, userland, ports and attitude come as a package,
they cannot be separated, for together they are the operating system.
//mirabile
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