Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 16:20:34 +0100 From: Dutch Collins <dutch@charm.net> To: Darryl Okahata <darrylo@sr.hp.com> Cc: doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Credit where it's due Message-ID: <39119541.7F140F88@charm.net> References: <200005041540.IAA29639@mina.sr.hp.com>
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Darryl Okahata wrote: > > Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote: > > > To give you an analogy, one of the things that really throws me everytime > > I see a Linux box booting up is the various copyrights as the boot probes > > go by. I'd never expect to see a > > > > [...] > > fxp0: <Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100B Ethernet> rev 0x05 int a irq 10 > > fxp0: Driver written by David Greenman <dg@FreeBSD.org> > > [...] > > > > in FreeBSD. > > This issue just popped up yesterday on slashdot. For a view from > the peanut gallery, check out, "Advertising in Your Boot Sequence?": > > http://slashdot.org/articles/00/05/03/0843228.shtml > > > Perhaps a workable solution would be an "acknowledgements" block at the > > start of the Handbook (and/or FAQ), something like: > > Another good place would be an appendix, especially if the list > grows large. > > I think giving credit is a good idea, although it should be > unobtrusive. A paragraph in the introduction, or some appendix in the > back, are good places. > > -- > Darryl Okahata > darrylo@sr.hp.com > > DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not > constitute the support, opinion, or policy of Agilent Technologies, or > of the little green men that have been following him all day. I saw the slashdot stuff, read some too. So, here it is from the reader's point of view. Oh, ALL I want is device and version. I don't need a bunch of distraction from drivers or kernels. [note: I almost got fired for putting a "done by" name code in an EPROM boot msg once but times do change. "booting v1.0a system (by:DEC/1980)" was sort of what I remember. SO; (a) the major writer (author, editor?) should get "up front" billing. example: How I killed my system and how to keep from doing it! by:name or mail address. The guys that helped the writer can go to the end. Is this not normal? I would not mind because I "helped" and was acknowledged. And the manual does not suffer. (b) Software when booting should give diagnostics, read the code or the manual if one wants to know who created/wrote/edit/printed. Just what I think. Someday even I will send some good info in and for sure it will get modified. Back to today's problem now.... -d +-------- Get your free UNIX here http://www.freebsd.org Brought to you by "a bunch of people" and your local mail server. NOTE: May you not have to bring down the mail servers 'cause of the "outlook bug of the day:"I Love ...." +----------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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