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Date:      Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:16:08 -0300 (ADT)
From:      "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@freebsd.org>
To:        Gilles Chehade <veins@evilkittens.org>
Cc:        miros-discuss@mirbsd.org, misc@openbsd.org, "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@freebsd.org>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, netbsd-users@netbsd.org
Subject:   Re: The future of NetBSD
Message-ID:  <20060831221446.I82634@hub.org>
In-Reply-To: <CF4.2070801@evilkittens.org>
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On Thu, 1 Jan 1970, Gilles Chehade wrote:

> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>> On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Gilles Chehade wrote:
>> 
>>> mmmh ... you've got a point ... you just opened my eyes ... documentation 
>>> is pointless when I have a blackbox doing the work.
>> 
>> Maybe I'm missing something, and if so, I do apologize to those on these 
>> lists that I may have offended ... but ... having clean source code to a 
>> driver is not equal to a black box ... is it?  I don't believe I've once 
>> advocatged 'binary drivers' ...

> a blackbox is not necessarily a binary driver, based on source code 
> filled with magic values you know nothing about, would you be able to 
> fix a bug ?

'k, put that way, I retract my original statement and apologize to those 
that I obviously offended ... I wasn't thinking it through, and can 
understand that adversion that those on these lists had to my comments :(




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