Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 11:41:24 -0700 From: Pedro Giffuni <pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> To: dennis <dennis@etinc.com> Cc: chris@acme1.ruhr.de, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, haas@lion.de Subject: Re: Commercial vendors registry Message-ID: <334E85D4.69C2@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> References: <3.0.32.19970411094113.00691d28@etinc.com>
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dennis wrote: > > I think that any vendor who does not have a developer on the hackers list > isn't > committed enough to recognize...... The hackers list is the best registry you > can have, and although there is a lot of irrelevant banter (as there is on > any list), it gives a philosophical understanding of what is going on rather > that just snippets of effectual data. > I don't think so. A vendor won't survive by selling FreeBSD-only products (at least no yet :-)), and keeping a developer tied to a platform and lots of irrelevant messages will not lower their costs. > Checklists are almost always inadequate, although I suppose required for > any automated attempt at implementing such a scenario. I don't know how > you would implement "kernel", as I cant imagine that you could quantify > the impact of a seemingly trivial kernel change on any particular product. > > I would suggest that you encourage vendors to participate in freebsd's future > rather than just read about it. Easy to say ....the hacker's list has always been available. --Pedro. > > Dennis
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