On Mon, Apr 26, 1999 at 12:36:53PM -0400, Dave Neil wrote: > > From my standpoint, the issues are: > > > > Is it GPL? > > > > Is it platform-independant? > > > > Do kernel hackers seem to like it ? I.e., it's critical to try to > > involve the linux community for wide-scale driver converage. > > Dave here from Corel, Hiya Dave, > Lothar seems very interesting. We definitely are going to want hardware > detection and are studying different ideas at this time. On a related > note, there seems to be some overlap as far as the need to involve > different groups of developers in regards to this and other setup > issues. Would a site devoted to basically posting develop ideas and > joint status be of use? There is a lot of overlap in this area because there are a lot of half-implementations I think. Lothar is hoping to consolidate some effort here but I'm not real sure some of the players (Redhat and probably more likely Caldera) aren't as likely to want to take a back seat to another distribution doing this sort of thing. I think I can safely speak for much of Debian's developers when I say that we generally don't care who does it as long as it gets done right. > Corel could setup the site . How comfortable are all of you with > having our presence on your lists? To me it'll be great to cooperate, > however I in no way want Corel to be perceived as intruding into > Debian's space. If anyone has some ideas of how we can work together > and avoid this please let me know. Bottom line is we want to help and > not be intrusive. Thanks Dave Our lists are public for a reason.. Welcome aboard. Input is always welcome. Fair warning that the usual way controversial matters are handled is with uh, "spirited debate" all too often. Asbestos undergarments are a plus, but otherwise... => -- Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org> Debian GNU/Linux developer PGP: E8D68481E3A8BB77 8EE22996C9445FBE The Source Comes First! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The X Window System: The standard UNIX graphical environment. With Linux, this is usually XFree86 (http://www.xfree86.org). You may call it X, XFree, the X Window System, XF86, or a host of other things. Call it 'XWindows' and someone will smack you and you will have deserved it.
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