Re: why support alpha??

On Wednesday 10 December 2003 08:56, you wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 19:43, eqe_at_cox.net wrote:
> > Isn't alpha dead? Why bother supporting them in 5.2 it seems like wasted
> > energy. Yes people still use it but for them there is 4.9 which works
> > fine. You could better serve the freebsd community by focusing on the
> > future of computing like amd64, great dual support, better drivers, etc.
> > and most people know this, so why not let alpha die. I personally like
> > alpha but it has no future.
> >
> > BTW to all the alpha people don't flame me flame compaq and dec for
> > selling it to them!!
>
> Okay i'll feed the troll.
>
> Why support an architecture that is ambivelent as the Alpha? let alone
> code for it?
>
> Why should we Code FreeBSD?  Wouldn't our efforts be better used on
> Microsoft's side?
>
> Why couldn't we merge Linux and FreeBSD into one whole pile of goop and
> reform 'Unix(tm)'.
>
> When it comes to the open source community it's called CS.  We like to
> experiment, learn, grow beyond what we see always.
>
> Supporting the Alpha is both a fundamental thing, and an experiment, a
> learning process for each and every one.
>
> Just like how coding for FreeBSD teach's us new and unique things, we
> learn, we grow beyond what Microsoft wants us to be.
>
> So to answer your question,
>
> Alpha is supported because we want to, we like it, and if you don't like
> it then why don't you ask the linux mailing lists the same damned thing.
>
> Because Linux supports 5x the amount of arch's as we do, (not as well I
> think).
>
> So go waste your time where it's better trolled.
first, I am no troll secondly you seem to have good reasons I have not really 
concidered, I find you argument for alpha to be reasonable however though I 
have learned something from this I can not excuse your rashness, so fuck off 
for calling me a troll genius.