From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 14 01:49:01 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA26851 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 14 Apr 1997 01:49:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phobos.illtel.denver.co.us (abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us [207.33.75.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA26846 for ; Mon, 14 Apr 1997 01:48:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (abelits@localhost) by phobos.illtel.denver.co.us (8.8.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id BAA07960; Mon, 14 Apr 1997 01:50:56 -0700 Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 01:50:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Alex Belits Reply-To: Alex Belits To: Joerg Wunsch cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Commercial vendors registry In-Reply-To: <19970414091216.YL45051@uriah.heep.sax.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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