From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Mar 23 22:40:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (zippy.cdrom.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CD3D37BB8B for ; Thu, 23 Mar 2000 22:40:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA30102; Thu, 23 Mar 2000 22:39:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) To: John Reynolds~ Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What does "Voxware still supported in 4.0" mean exactly? In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 23 Mar 2000 10:09:28 MST." <14554.20424.548258.530333@hip186.ch.intel.com> Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 22:39:28 -0800 Message-ID: <30099.953879968@zippy.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Rather than having a user send Cameron Grant a Diamond Fusion Card, or any > other "bleeding edge" or "old 'n' crusty" sound card to play with, shouldn't > FreeBSD, Inc. or Walnut Creek itself be proactively shipping willing > developers like this all the hardware they can purchase? I know that it is It already purchases tens of thousands of dollars worth of such equipment a year. We can't do it all, however, and need your help. Some of it isn't even the money, it's the time of individuals we can't really spare right now to go out and purchase/ship the stuff. From that perspective, it makes far more sense to have dozens or even hundreds of people providing stuff directly to developers rather than somehow expecting one very small organization to handle each and everyone's needs. That's just not even possible. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message