Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 00:37:57 -0800 From: W Gerald Hicks <jhix@mindspring.com> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD dead? Well, not in theory... Message-ID: <20000312003757O.jhix@mindspring.com> In-Reply-To: <200003111841.NAA17534@etinc.com> References: <200003101840.NAA12885@etinc.com> <Pine.BSF.4.05.10003111306520.14049-100000@bsd1.nyct.net> <200003111841.NAA17534@etinc.com>
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Once again I must ask... What do you know of Open Source? Aside from your enlightened criticisms I've seen nothing in the way of any sort of contribution. No ports maintenance, no code contribution. Nothing other than pure profiteering and never returning anything but a kick in the nuts. Thanks (not) -- Jerry Hicks jhix@mindspring.com From: Dennis <dennis@etinc.com> Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD dead? Well, not in theory... Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 13:36:31 -0500 > mbac@nyct.net writes... > > >The very fact that source is available means that you can pay any scruffy > >unshaven hacker to fix it for you, instead of suffering at the hands and > >whims of, say, a FreeBSD "vendor" as you are doing. I would figure that at > >least you (of all people) realize that someone else can come in and get it > >done, and that you could optionally pay someone to do this. > > Not realistically. First of all, most "scruffy unshaven hackers" are not > qualified to... [rant and shameless self-promotion elided] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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