Subject: Re: Chuck-on-a-card?
To: Greywolf <greywolf@starwolf.com>
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
List: netbsd-advocacy
Date: 09/27/1999 12:28:13
On Sunday, 26 September 1999 at 19:29:44 -0700, Greywolf wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, Greg Lehey wrote:
>
> # On Sunday, 26 September 1999 at 18:45:38 -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> # > Almost all the code we share with FreeBSD is from the Berkeley era. We
> # > don't tend to exchange a lot these days.
> #
> # This is not correct.  I don't know how much FreeBSD code goes into
> # NetBSD, but FreeBSD imports a lot of NetBSD code.
>
> This would imply that they are getting grants/monies for work that we
> are doing/have done.

I don't see any grants or monies.  But yes, it's evident that FreeBSD
is getting work for free that NetBSD has done.  It's free for NetBSD
to return the favour; that's the name of the game.

Greg
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