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Date:      Mon, 26 Mar 2001 17:31:29 -0800 (PST)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        Dennis <dennis@etinc.com>
Cc:        scanner@jurai.net, Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: old business (was Re: Intel driver doc's Take 2.)
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.21.0103261731160.24054-100000@zeppo.feral.com>
In-Reply-To: <5.0.0.25.0.20010326135954.0215deb0@mail.etinc.com>

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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"

Not necessarily. You might pay to have it developed.



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