Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 10:38:14 -0500 From: dennis@etinc.com (dennis) To: Jerry Kendall <jerry@border.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD or BSDI Message-ID: <199603081538.KAA06172@etinc.com>
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> >On Thu, 7 Mar 1996, dennis wrote: > >> >> > >> >On Thu, 7 Mar 1996, dennis wrote: >> > >> >> >> >> > >> >> > >> >> >Right!... So if there is anyone out there that needs help with >> >> >FreeBSD, there are more than 500 people that can help this sole.. >> >> > >> >> >I personally have sent out messages at 2am on sunday mornings... >> >> >Try to get that from BSDI.... >> >> >> >> Thats not fair. BSDI has a user list also..... >> >> >> > >> > >> >I agree, BUT, that list of users can't look into the sources to try >> >to find an answer.... >> >> Why not? I have source....and so do many others. You just can't give >> it to anyone. >> >> Dennis > >Which is how it limits this kind of support... Sure you can tell someone >what to do to fix something, but, you can't give them the sources to fix >a faulty program... Well...the real issue is not that there is no source....because anyone can get it. The issue is the COST of the source. So the real argument isn't that "you cant do it" with BSDI....only that "its gonna cost you" to do it with BSDI, to be accurate. Dennis ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Emerging Technologies, Inc. http://www.etinc.com Synchronous Communications Cards and Routers For Discriminating Tastes. 56k to T1 and beyond. Frame Relay, PPP, HDLC, and X.25 for BSD/OS, FreeBSD and LINUX
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