Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:52:45 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Doug Rabson <dfr@rabson.org> Cc: Alex Keda <admin@lissyara.su>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: propose: all arch move into a separate dir Message-ID: <3744.1267782765@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:45:27 GMT." <CF439450-14F1-4628-A012-CF6DD2A50670@rabson.org>
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In message <CF439450-14F1-4628-A012-CF6DD2A50670@rabson.org>, Doug Rabson write s: >Normal business practice doesn't include >intentionally making your customers' lives difficult - if you make a >habit of it they tend to go elsewhere. Right, but as Sun has so definitively shown, you don't do your customers any service either, by being mortally afraid of breaking backwards compatibility. It's a balance to be struck, and it was certainly a mistake that we didn't deal with it when the alpha arrived. Or PC98. Or spar64. Or ... Poul-Henning -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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