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Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 14:01:30 -0500
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Subject: Re: old business (was Re: Intel driver doc's Take 2.)
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At 12:50 PM 03/25/2001, Matthew Jacob wrote:
>On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Dennis wrote:
>
> >
> > If the if_wx driver sucks, why not fix it rather than trying to coerce a
> > mega-companies with a deep political structure to change is policies?
> > But if youre not going to maintain it, dont do it at all. You cant 
> stick it to
> > users by deciding later that you dont want to support it anymore.
>
>I am going to fix it (but this has been low on my priority list- you got the
>bucks to pay for this, buddy, &and& make it more attractive then the other
>things I'm currently getting paid to work on? money talks...), and I *also* am
>trying to change Intel's policy.

If I pay for it, I own it. Thats the caveat of "open-source"


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