From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Apr 12 15:48:58 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA28261 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 12 Apr 1997 15:48:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from etinc.com (et-gw-fr1.etinc.com [204.141.244.98]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA28254; Sat, 12 Apr 1997 15:48:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ntws (ntws.etinc.com [204.141.95.142]) by etinc.com (8.8.3/8.6.9) with SMTP id SAA16800; Sat, 12 Apr 1997 18:55:27 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970412184754.00b32100@etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@etinc.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 18:47:57 -0400 To: dyson@freebsd.org From: dennis Subject: Re: Commercial vendors registry Cc: terry@lambert.org, scrappy@hub.org, pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co, hackers@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 03:53 PM 4/12/97 -0500, John S. Dyson wrote: >> >> There's too much "its fixed in -current" or "it'll be in the next release" >> and not enough commitment to getting fixes and important new feature >> into the short-term. >> >> For example, right now, most of the effort should be in making 2.3 >> near-perfect (given the imperfections in 2.2.x), not "dicking around" >> with 3.0 or some future, bug-filled release. >> >Those who are making money with FreeBSD/Linux/whatever at least have the >power to get those things done. The developers of FreeBSD donate their >time, others who make use of it are welcome to improve FreeBSD by donating >other things :-). Thats fine, but then you should resign yourselves to having a cult OS and not whimper about "commercial registries", as if thats going to make a difference. Employees "contribute" to a company and get paid for their time...your allegation that you have to give something away for free to make FreeBSD better or more useful is part of the attitude at the root of the problem. db