why support alpha??

[eqe at cox.net]

On Wednesday 10 December 2003 17:26, you wrote:
> At 4:54 AM -0500 12/10/03, eqe at cox.net wrote:
> >Yes, you have a point here but I never said alpha hackers
> >are working in vain.  I merely tryed to imply that their
> >efforts could better serve the freebsd community by
> >concentrating our efforts on just platforms that are
> >more mainstream in the server market.
>
> You are welcome to "serve" the FreeBSD community in any
> way you choose.  But people volunteer their time and
> their effort to work on what they want to work on.
>
> Also note that the "FreeBSD community" does include people
> who are running FreeBSD on Alpha machines.  Thus, the
> developers that work on FreeBSD/Alpha are *already* serving
> the "FreeBSD community", and doing a good job of it.
>
> Me, I am not directly interested in alpha.  That means I
> and not spending *my* time and *my* money (for hardware)
> on Alpha.  Philosophically though, I'm happy when there
> are FreeBSD developers who spend *their* time on it.
>
> As long as there are a critical mass of developers who are
> doing the work for FreeBSD/Alpha, then I see no reason why
> we would want to drive them away.
again I am not trying to drive them anywhere and I too see their value but 
their are other more important issues for 5.2 then alpha like smp.