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From: jkh@whisker.lotus.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Subject: Re: WFJ's talk last night...
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	*I* do.  Most people should.

	All sorts of intelligent, resourceful, and knowledgeable people are using
	BSDI's product.  Quite a few of these people might like to see any code
	they write made freely available.  But if it is only useful to bsd/386,
	why should they bother?

I do too.  386bsd is going into a lot of very creative and interesting
directions, but there's no reason why any of them force us to diverge
significantly from standards like POSIX or mainstream BSD's like BSDI.

I think a common ABI with BSDI would be a fine, fine thing and I, for one,
would heartily endorse it.  USL shouldn't have any particular beef since
only SVR4 compliance is going to affect them at all.

					Jordan
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Jordan Hubbard          Lotus Development Ireland       jkh@whisker.lotus.ie
386bsd Patchkit Coordinator                             All-around nice dude.
I do not speak for Lotus as that's not in my job description.