From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Mar 24 14:10:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (zippy.cdrom.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52E6F37B7CD for ; Fri, 24 Mar 2000 14:10:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA21373; Fri, 24 Mar 2000 14:10:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) To: Conrad Sabatier Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What does "Voxware still supported in 4.0" mean exactly? In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 24 Mar 2000 15:22:08 CST." Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 14:10:35 -0800 Message-ID: <21370.953935835@zippy.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Seriously, isn't that one of the chief criticisms of Microsoft, that every > time they release a new version of Windows, you have to plunk down for > {more,better,faster,newer,bigger} hardware in order to make the best use > of it? Microsoft is a company with billions of dollars in assets. FreeBSD is almost entirely volunteer supported, and those few people in active FreeBSD employ are not paid to work on audio support. If Microsoft is therefore unable or unwilling to continue to support old hardware, even with their resources, then please explain to me how it is you can expect FreeBSD to do more with volunteers. > Despite this frequently noted complaint, the fact remains that Windows > still continues to work with much older hardware. Why shouldn't FreeBSD? Indeed, why shouldn't it, and so where's your contribution to making it be so? That's the only thing that's going to help you here and these complaints truly do not address the issue at its most fundamentally important level: It takes someone to do the work even when it comes to maintaining old things at some minimum level of functionality and in a volunteer project, you should always be prepared to either volunteer yourself or shut up at some point. That decision point has now arrived in your case and it's up to you to decide which fork in the road you want to take. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message