Date: 23 Mar 1999 21:37:53 +0100 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> To: Emmanuel DELOGET <pixel@DotCom.FR> Cc: chuckr@mat.net (Chuck Robey), jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, toasty@home.dragondata.com, hasty@rah.star-gate.com, dm@globalserve.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Hackers Mail List) Subject: Re: NFS - Will it ever be fixed? Message-ID: <xzpbthkosbi.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Emmanuel DELOGET's message of "Tue, 23 Mar 1999 12:40:25 %2B0100 (MET)" References: <199903231140.LAA28691@excalibur.oceanis.net>
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Emmanuel DELOGET <pixel@DotCom.FR> writes: > Hey... I think I'm dreaming. You'd pay to have this NFS stuff > fixed ?!?!!? I don't think this fits very well with the spirit > of a free OS. Perhaps I'm wrong, but, if you pay someone (even > McKusick) to do this work, you may enter in a new land, where > committers would want to be paid to fix up little things. This > is crazy. Perhaps we'll have a 'letter to FreeBSD hobbyists' in > some days that woul say : > [...] Sorry, kid, but you're a little late. There are already several precedents for hiring people (and yes, M. Kirk McKusick is amongst them) to fix bugs in FreeBSD. I can't see that it has had any effect on the willingness of the FreeBSD developers to do work for free. OBTW, Walnut Creek CD-ROM has three employees working full-time on developing FreeBSD. How does that rock your little boat? DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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