From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 17 17:37:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A50337B403; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 17:37:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f9I0bIG89886; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 20:37:21 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20011017125020N.jkh@freebsd.org> References: <009301c15726$797d19a0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> <20011017125020N.jkh@freebsd.org> Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 20:37:15 -0400 To: dhass@imagestream.com From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: RE: FYI Cc: Jordan Hubbard , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 12:50 PM -0700 10/17/01, Jordan Hubbard wrote: >I fully support your idea of offering a "bounty" to anyone writing >drivers for your cards and think you're being more than generous in >offering it. I wish more vendors would do that and I'm sorry that >this discussion has gotten as polarized as it has. If people want >to change the support situation for T1 cards, they need to get off >their duffs and write the code - as a vendor, you're doing all that >might be expected and more to facilitate the process. I hope the >zealots in the audience realize that too. The freebsd project is really just a bunch of users who happen to use and work on freebsd. The group of users is such that we'll always PREFER a completely open-source BSD-licensed driver to other alternatives. However, it is also true that the vast majority of those users will prefer having a driver to NOT having a driver! :-) I think that offering some sort of bounty to have a freebsd developer work on drivers for your cards, under NDA, is a generous offer. I'm not the kind of person who writes drivers, but I certainly hope that someone takes you up on the offer. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message