Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 20:37:15 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: dhass@imagestream.com Cc: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: FYI Message-ID: <p05101004b7f3d27fa9e3@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20011017125020N.jkh@freebsd.org> References: <009301c15726$797d19a0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> <Pine.LNX.3.96.1011017111608.30611A-100000@ims1.imagestream.com> <20011017125020N.jkh@freebsd.org>
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At 12:50 PM -0700 10/17/01, Jordan Hubbard wrote: >I fully support your idea of offering a "bounty" to anyone writing >drivers for your cards and think you're being more than generous in >offering it. I wish more vendors would do that and I'm sorry that >this discussion has gotten as polarized as it has. If people want >to change the support situation for T1 cards, they need to get off >their duffs and write the code - as a vendor, you're doing all that >might be expected and more to facilitate the process. I hope the >zealots in the audience realize that too. The freebsd project is really just a bunch of users who happen to use and work on freebsd. The group of users is such that we'll always PREFER a completely open-source BSD-licensed driver to other alternatives. However, it is also true that the vast majority of those users will prefer having a driver to NOT having a driver! :-) I think that offering some sort of bounty to have a freebsd developer work on drivers for your cards, under NDA, is a generous offer. I'm not the kind of person who writes drivers, but I certainly hope that someone takes you up on the offer. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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