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From: Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: The Future of FreeBSD...
Date: 3 Aug 1995 05:34:09 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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Jon Jenkins <jenkinsj@ozy.dec.com> wrote:
] 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!. The decision
] is quite understandable on Digitals part. Why should
] they let me use expertise I have gained while in their
] employ (and still so) on a potential competitors product.
This was Novell's point of view as well.
Pity I learned little at Novell not directly related to file
systems (and most of that I knew before; Weber has had a UNIX
source license for a long time) and NetWare. Neither of which
I was hell-bent on coding in FreeBSD at the time.
And they wouldn't let me fix the problems in UnixWare outside
of the little box they had me filed away in. The biggest case
of AI* I have ever seen.
I think they feared the raising of the bar.
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
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*"Artificial Importance" -- Ed Lane
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or previous employers.