> [ big complaint about separate toolchain ]

"It's not our fault".  Some of the alpha modules have CMU copyrights.
These allow redistribution and are in fact quite reasonable, but they
can't go back to the FSF (and then bounce back with GPL's) until CMU
provides (as they promised) an assignment.

However, for $70,000, 1 week's salary for each of your 70 developers,
I promise to somehow solve this problem for you and integrate the
toolchain. :)

Perhaps we are charging too much for netbsd-alpha?  Last I heard, the
price was $0.00. :) However, I believe NetBSD does accept
contributions.  A team of 70 developers costs perhaps four million
dollars per year in salary alone. If you have so much riding on NetBSD,
perhaps you could contribute 1% of that development budget.

Also, it seems like we have had very little trouble with the alpha
toolchain.  In many ways, having a separate and _very_ stable toolchain
source tree is quite an advantage. It is in fact documented with man
pages, info files, and various hardcopy books on the subject of
GNU in general. We could probably push the various issues through
with enough phone calls to CMU and some technical integration, but it
doesn't seem more critical than a hundred other issues. Is there some
actual problem I'm unaware of that can't be solved with a couple of
symlinks?
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Ross Harvey	Avalon Computer Systems, Inc.		  ross@teraflop.com