Re: why support alpha??

On Wednesday 10 December 2003 20:54, you wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 17:37, eqe_at_cox.net wrote:
> > It was not my intent to piss off anyone but the truth is freebsd needs to
> > seriously think about it's goals. I just thought if all the people dev.
> > for alpha started dev. for i686 and amd64 then the project would be
> > stronger for it. The alpha guys are valuable no question and again it was
> > not my intent to piss on them. I just don't have an alpha (I wish I did,
> > but I don't) and so I am only thinking about I686 or amd64.
>
> You're providing useless garbage.  You haven't said anything helpful.
> The really sad part is I imagine you don't contribute ANYTHING to
> FreeBSD.
>
> Bug reports are something, so are patches, testing, commiting ports,
> helping write documentation, man pages, etc.
>
> Alpha has layed the groundwork for AMD64, and Sparc64 and has tought
> some valuable lessons to everyone who runs FreeBSD.
>
> This lesson is simple, we cannot forget the past if we are to goto the
> future.
>
> Point simply, by dropping support for Alpha would be very harmful to
> FreeBSD in many ways.  It is growing, it's developing and helping us
> learn what we need to do with other ports.
>
> So I can honestly say that Alpha is a great platform, it has maturity,
> it has a 64bit architecture that we can grow with.
>
> Some people can ask the question why don't we drop i686 support since
> it's so old and ancient.
>
> The point is, as long as there is people willing to maintain the Alpha
> port, it will live.
>
> So, I hope that the Alpha port lives longer then you do.
ok, and by saying the things you have said here you are doing something 
productive? I only made a suggestion nothing more nothing less why you take 
this so personally is beyond me but now I am done w/ this I have wasted 
enough time trying to explain myself to a narrow minded fool such as 
yourself.