From owner-freebsd-bugs Wed Aug 28 00:38:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA09227 for bugs-outgoing; Wed, 28 Aug 1996 00:38:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA09218 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 1996 00:38:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id AAA05147; Wed, 28 Aug 1996 00:38:11 -0700 (PDT) To: William A Gill cc: Gene Stark , bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: misc/1515: Unable to install 2.1.5 from CD-ROM. In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 27 Aug 1996 22:08:55 PDT." Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 00:38:11 -0700 Message-ID: <5145.841217891@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-bugs@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Again, I am well aware of the volunteer nature of FreeBSD (yes, it does say > "free" right there on the name). But the mere presence of the "product" on > the "market" should imply a certain level of support for it, albeit by a > volunteer force. And such support does, indeed, exist. It's an extremely finite resource, however, and everything that enters our support system gets graded and acted upon in a rather organic fashion - whatever strikes the collective [un]consciousness of -questions as being answerable or relevant gets dealt with, other things sometimes slipping all the way down the queue and onto the floor. It's just the way it works, and you had the simple misfortune to enter the system with a problem which was both unexpected, considering how long it had gone unreported (or at least ignored) in -stable, and involved a piece of hardware which few still actually had. As things have progressed, more people have stepped forward and perhaps someone will hopefully soon have a fix for it. Jordan