From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Oct 14 0: 5:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAC7037B401 for ; Sun, 14 Oct 2001 00:05:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f9E74va36715; Sun, 14 Oct 2001 09:04:57 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Bsdguru@aol.com Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4-port T1 PCI card with integrated csu/dsu In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 13 Oct 2001 19:33:08 EDT." Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 09:04:57 +0200 Message-ID: <36713.1003043097@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message , Bsdguru@aol.com writes: >In a message dated 10/13/01 3:15:31 PM Eastern Daylight Time, >phk@critter.freebsd.dk writes: > >> >> etinc is not recommendable. >> >> >> > >> >Everyone knows that PHK has a grudge against etinc. How childish. >> >> No, I don't have a grudge against Dennis or Etinc, I merely point >> out that somebody who has caused so much grief in our mailing lists >> without ever actually submitting one single diff to us is not >> a (re)commendable supplier. > >I dont know about you, but I base my recommendations on the ability of the >product to help the person thats asking, not the number of lines of code >they've contributed. I would never trust my data to a closed-source product from somebody behaving like Dennis. You're of course just as free to decide what you do. >I dont see how driving away commercial vendors with such a ridiculous >attitude benefits the FreeBSD community. Very unprofessional. Belive me, I have worked hard to drive Dennis away :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message