To the two questions - no, but a driver project could easily fit under SPI's umbrella, and no, but the expectation is usually more of trying than of succeeding.
On Mon, Aug 16, 1999 at 10:48:04AM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: > We (who is we?) develop drivers? I think there is an expectation but we > cannot guarantee that we will fulfill that expectation. > > On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > > By no means - consider the hardware donations aimed at creating support > > for the hardware. They give it to us on the condition that we use it > > to develop drivers for it. It may be a foreign agenda, but it may also > > be our own internal agenda. > > > > On Thu, Aug 05, 1999 at 05:50:17PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > > I would expect them at least to pretent that this is an altruistic act and > > > agree to a no strings donation. We cannot allow a foreign agenda to > > > control the organization. > > > > > > On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Ean R . Schuessler wrote: > > > > > > > I disagree. I don't think that it would be unusual or, for that matter, > > > > unfair > > > > for a donor to place some constraints on their donation. We must > > > > remember that > > > > many times these donations will not be of a purely altruistic nature. I > > > > can > > > > envision many situations where a donor may be giving something to us > > > > because > > > > they hope that we can do something for them. I think that this may be > > > > especially true in the case of large donations. > Dan /--------------------------------\ /--------------------------------\ | Daniel Jacobowitz |__| SCS Class of 2002 | | Debian GNU/Linux Developer __ Carnegie Mellon University | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | \--------------------------------/ \--------------------------------/
