Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 01:50:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Alex Belits <abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Commercial vendors registry Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970414013648.6395C-100000@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us> In-Reply-To: <19970414091216.YL45051@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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On Mon, 14 Apr 1997, J Wunsch wrote: > The junk is not at crucial parts of the system. Things like ft(4) or > aic(4) (yeah, my most favourite examples) simply haven't been removed > since users are still using them. But, etinc.com doesn't have to rely > on a crappy floppy tape driver. ...and this is wrong -- if users use it and it doesn't work, no commercial software verndor will feel safe with such system because he will fear that users will abandon system, or system's problems will be attributed to his software. Arguments like "only losers use floppy tape, but since they do, we keep crappy code for them, and everywhere else our system is good" won't help in that case. -- Alex
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