From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 3 19:41:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from netbank.com.br (garrincha.netbank.com.br [200.203.199.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 157B537B71D for ; Tue, 3 Apr 2001 19:41:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from riel@conectiva.com.br) Received: from imladris.rielhome.conectiva (3-038.cwb-adsl.brasiltelecom.net.br [200.193.162.38]) by netbank.com.br (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03DF146810; Tue, 3 Apr 2001 23:40:45 -0300 (BRST) Received: from localhost (gzekaz@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by imladris.rielhome.conectiva (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f342fRP11796; Tue, 3 Apr 2001 23:41:27 -0300 Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 23:41:27 -0300 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel X-Sender: riel@imladris.rielhome.conectiva To: Dennis Cc: "T. William Wells" , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intel driver doc's Take 2. In-Reply-To: <5.0.0.25.0.20010403191622.02cbd8a0@mail.etinc.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Dennis wrote: > This "consumer" attitude that you are doing a company a favor by > buying something from them is completely misguided. Most companies are > not some ISP or consultant struggling to pay its bills. WE are doing > you a favor by making our technology available to you at a fair price. Yeah yeah, companies are there for the stockholders. Screw the customers. While this is a nice short-term business plan, I'm really curious how this social experiment will end up in the long run. Rik -- Virtual memory is like a game you can't win; However, without VM there's truly nothing to lose... http://www.surriel.com/ http://www.conectiva.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com.br/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message