From owner-freebsd-stable Mon May 24 23:13:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles502.castles.com [208.214.165.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41A49155BA for ; Mon, 24 May 1999 23:13:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA00594; Mon, 24 May 1999 23:11:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199905250611.XAA00594@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "David Schwartz" Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [Q] How stable is FreeBSD 3.X ? In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 24 May 1999 22:53:07 PDT." <000001bea672$dce52580$021d85d1@whenever.youwant.to> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 23:11:46 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Have you stopped to consider that users may just want to _use_ FreeBSD > without having to follow the development? Have you considered that bad > releases affect them? This is yet another piece of the 'Open Source' versus > 'company supported' puzzle. Users are welcome, if not encouraged to "use" FreeBSD. However, they need to understand how the development process works, and particularly they need to avoid irritating the developers by complaining about things that a) have been fixed already, and b) could not be fixed with the information supplied. FreeBSD is not a "shrinkwrap" product, and I don't think that any of us pretend otherwise. If a user is naively expecting something different then they are in dire need of some reality adjustment, and bringing them up short when they start with the public histrionics is probably more of a service than an affront. Speaking from a developer's viewpoint; if a complaint from any quarter doesn't contain the bare minimum of real information needed to identify the problem (or at least problem class) it's worthless. In fact, it's worse than worthless, it's an active waste of my time even thinking about it. -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message