Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 11:27:39 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: dennis@etinc.com (dennis) Cc: nate@mt.sri.com, jkh@time.cdrom.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Price of FreeBSD (was On Holy Wars...) Message-ID: <199704190157.LAA28991@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970418121536.00b52b60@etinc.com> from dennis at "Apr 18, 97 12:15:38 pm"
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dennis stands accused of saying: > > Freebsd is *not* a commercial company and there is no benefit to secrecy. > Why does a "free" OS have secrets? And this is not about fixing bugs, > believe me I understand about bugs, its about having to reengineer > freebsd based systems every couple of months..... Dennis, you really shouldn't mix hallucinogenics and the X-Files; it makes dealing with reality _very_ difficult. - There are no secrets. If there was something that you felt you needed to know, the people that know it are accesible and publically named, and the source is there for you to examine. - What makes you think that any sort of "reengineering" is required? The fact that development continues doesn't suddenly obsolete older code. It doesn't sort of shrivel up or anything... > I'm just getting tired of getting hit in the nuts for not supporting > -current....the fact that the release is out of date a week after its > out is a very bad thing and really needs to change... What crap is this? Most operating systems are out of date when they're frozen six months before public release; you're bitching about what is a _fact_of_life_. If your gripe is that customers are coming to you complaining that you're not supporting -current, sit them down and explain to them in short words that FreeBSD is _not_ Linux; it is not _necessary_ to be running the highest-numbered version of _anything_, and if they have half a brain they will be following a release-derived -stable thread, which is maintained with exactly your situation in mind; bugfixes, stability, maintenance in general. > Dennis -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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