From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 27 14:58:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from etinc.com (et-gw.etinc.com [207.252.1.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C67F37B5C4 for ; Mon, 27 Mar 2000 14:58:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dennis@etinc.com) Received: from dbsys (dbsys.etinc.com [207.252.1.18]) by etinc.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA19266; Mon, 27 Mar 2000 17:58:55 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200003272258.RAA19266@etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@etinc.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 17:54:32 -0500 To: Paul Robinson , Blaz Zupan From: Dennis Subject: Re: Onboard Intel NIC Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 11:08 PM 3/27/00 +0100, Paul Robinson wrote: >On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, Blaz Zupan wrote: > >> > Been there, done that...tired of waiting. What does one do when the >> > maintainers dont maintain if complaining isnt allowed? >> >> Fix it yourself. If you don't know how or don't have the time - tough >> luck. Buy a support contract or use a commercial OS. dont have to. Just go to Linux. It works there. or NetBSD. And thats exactly what people do. thats what you folks dont get. Your "fix it yourself" attitude drives all except hackers away. You cant sell freebsd if it works better than linux, what makes you think you can sell it if it doesnt work as well? Do you see tumbleweek in your future? DB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message