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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!torn!news.bc.net!felix.junction.net!okjunc.junction.net!michael From: michael@okjunc.junction.net (Michael Dillon) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: The Future of FreeBSD... Date: 29 Jul 1995 19:28:05 GMT Organization: Okanagan Internet Junction, Vernon B.C., Canada Lines: 25 Message-ID: <3ve245$fsa@felix.junction.net> References: <3uktse$d9c@hal.nt.tuwien.ac.at> <3v40u3$qmb@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> <3v7g53$qag@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> <3vc897$u2h@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: okjunc.junction.net In article <3vc897$u2h@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>, Jon Jenkins <jenkinsj@ozy.dec.com> wrote: >j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) wrote: >>Jon Jenkins <jenkinsj@ozy.dec.com> wrote: >> >> >>Interesting. Matt Thomas doesn't seem to have this kind of troubles, >>he's been contributing the 100 MBit ethernet and FDDI drivers, and >>he's also a DEC employee. > >You will have to ask Matt about this. I wrote most of >the ISDN code. I asked if I could contribute to an ISDN >driver for FreeBSD and was told no!. But DEC sells 100baseTx cards and FDDI cards so naturally they told Matt to go right ahead and gave him all the technical documents and a list of email addresses of other employees to provide him tech support. DEC is a big company and does lots of things but they are not going to say no to increased sales of network cards. -- Michael Dillon Voice: +1-604-546-8022 Memra Software Inc. Fax: +1-604-542-4130 http://www.memra.com E-mail: michael@memra.com