At 4:54 AM -0500 12/10/03, eqe_at_cox.net wrote: > >Yes, you have a point here but I never said alpha hackers >are working in vain. I merely tryed to imply that their >efforts could better serve the freebsd community by >concentrating our efforts on just platforms that are >more mainstream in the server market. You are welcome to "serve" the FreeBSD community in any way you choose. But people volunteer their time and their effort to work on what they want to work on. Also note that the "FreeBSD community" does include people who are running FreeBSD on Alpha machines. Thus, the developers that work on FreeBSD/Alpha are *already* serving the "FreeBSD community", and doing a good job of it. Me, I am not directly interested in alpha. That means I and not spending *my* time and *my* money (for hardware) on Alpha. Philosophically though, I'm happy when there are FreeBSD developers who spend *their* time on it. As long as there are a critical mass of developers who are doing the work for FreeBSD/Alpha, then I see no reason why we would want to drive them away. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad_at_gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad_at_freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih_at_rpi.eduReceived on Wed Dec 10 2003 - 13:26:23 UTC
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