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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
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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>
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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.


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