Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 10:22:48 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> To: Dennis <dennis@etinc.com> Cc: marcov@stack.nl (Marco van de Voort), hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs Linux, Solaris, and NT Message-ID: <200012211822.eBLIMm778734@earth.backplane.com> References: <5.0.0.25.0.20001220192150.01f42450@mail.etinc.com> <5.0.0.25.0.20001221120837.022ab0a0@mail.etinc.com>
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:If you want freebsd to remain a cult OS for hackers you are correct.
:
FreeBSD hasn't been a cult OS in a very long time, Dennis. You need to
open your eyes a little more. The OSS world has changed in the last
few years.
:Reverse engineering is a myth. The result is so inferior to high-level
:language source code as to not be a concern, plus its illegal so it cant be
:marketed.
Reverse engineering is very legal, and it is hardly a myth, nor
is the result necessarily inferior. What is inferior are the thousands
of commercial products that don't follow their own specs and the hundreds
of chipsets that contain serious hardware bugs that the manufacturers
don't bother to fix that we have to add hacks to support.
What you are doing is using a few bad apples as an excuse to try to
bulldoze the orchard. You shouldn't be surprised when people scoff
at the attempt. Nobody is beholden to you... serious commercial
enterprises which use FreeBSD also support its development and stay
on top of the areas which they feel are important to them. Take Yahoo
for example. If you are serious about FreeBSD and you want things handed
to you on a platter, then the problem here is your own attitude. There
is a cost to technology that goes far beyond the number of dollars you
ring up on the register.
-Matt
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