Dennis, On Mar 18, 2008, at 12:58 AM, Dennis Clarke wrote:
> I was as frustrated as all of you with the situation that we have and > perhaps the only real solution here is to work together, as a > community, to > get some sort of hardware solution going that we can all actually > work with. > Something with all the specs and all the right people in the right > place > working with a common vision. Yes, we may need to go back to step > zero and > review a pile of code, again, but at least we will have an ample > supply of > workable hardware. ...which is what the Apple stuff gives you. Say what you will about Apple as a company (I am not a terribly huge fan of them as a company) > Forget the Apple stuff. You can not get all the technical specs for > it. If > you are in love with the Apple hardware then I wish you well and I > pat you > on the back. Be sure to write a post card from time to time to let > us know > how you are doing with reverse engineering all those closed design > specs. Oh, I guess those "non-existant" macppc FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD ports are something we should just pretend don't exist to support the position you happen to favor, then? I'm sure the Efika is a great eval environment but it's also missing the point when it comes to affordable hardware availability.
