why support alpha??

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Tue Dec 9 20:48:04 PST 2003


In the last episode (Dec 09), Eriq Lamar said:
> On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 22:53, David O'Brien wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 10:43:02PM -0500, eqe at cox.net wrote:
> > > Isn't alpha dead? Why bother supporting them in 5.2 it seems like
> > > wasted energy. Yes people still use it but for them there is 4.9
> > > which works fine. You could better serve the freebsd community by
> > > focusing on the future of computing like amd64, great dual
> > > support, better drivers, etc. and most people know this, so why
> > > not let alpha die. I personally like alpha but it has no future.
> > 
> > What is the purpose of this email?!?
> 1. why not read the message body I think I explained it in plain
> english.
> > So what's your point?
> 2. for my point read 1.

You are more than welcome to redirect your personal coding efforts to
whatever platform you see fit.  So are we :)  

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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