Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 21:49:12 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: Dennis <dennis@etinc.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD dead? Well, not in theory... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000311214630.13688Y-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <200003111841.NAA17534@etinc.com>
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On Sat, 11 Mar 2000, Dennis wrote: > mbac@nyct.net writes... > > >The very fact that source is available means that you can pay any scruffy > >unshaven hacker to fix it for you, instead of suffering at the hands and > >whims of, say, a FreeBSD "vendor" as you are doing. I would figure that at > >least you (of all people) realize that someone else can come in and get it > >done, and that you could optionally pay someone to do this. > [snip - paying a dropout $100/h to fix drivers] > Another point is that Open Source is virtually synonomous with "Totally > undocumented". The linux community, years into it, are still totally > dependent on Alan Cox to fix drivers properly (mostly because the OS is > completely undocumented and changes are made on a whim regularly). D. > Becker continues to be the only one that can properly fix the ethernet > drivers because they are such a mess and poorly documented. Why haven't you considered hiring somebody to document the parts you are intersted in? Would solve at least half the problem... [snip] > > dennis > Emerging Technologies, Inc. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > --------- > > > http://www.etinc.com > ISA and PCI T1/T3/V35/HSSI Cards for FreeBSD and LINUX > Multiport T1 and HSSI/T3 UNIX-based Routers > Bandwidth Management Standalone Systems > Bandwidth Management software for LINUX and FreeBSD > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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