From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 13 02:51:16 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA26559 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 13 Apr 1997 02:51:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id CAA26551 for ; Sun, 13 Apr 1997 02:51:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id LAA16114 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 13 Apr 1997 11:51:04 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA02576; Sun, 13 Apr 1997 11:42:52 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970413114250.GE62058@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 11:42:50 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Commercial vendors registry References: <3.0.32.19970411094113.00691d28@etinc.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: ; from Christoph Haas on Apr 13, 1997 01:14:29 +0000 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Christoph Haas wrote: > Agreed, but I think that a vendor feels much more "at home" if you can > address him persoanlly. Just a simple mail saying "Hi, we know that you > rely on part xyz of FreeBSD, and we want to inform you that it is going > to change in the next RELEASE, You should have a look at CURRENT for > what's going on. Bye." would be enough. ...but is difficult enough to handle, either. Unlike for massive code changes like the Lite2 merges, the developer often doesn't know that somebody might be affected by his change. The only viable way i could imagine is to allow a vendor to `register' to the commit list by a regular expression to cut down his field of interest (as opposed to track any and all changes in a wide area as the commit lists are handled now). This way, a vendor interested in tracking all kernel networking changes could subscribe to ^src/sys/net.* for example. > Remember: FreeBSD rises and falls with the > applications that are availabel for it. Ever thought about why many > commercial apps are only available for L* (Star Office, Poet, > Mathematica, ...) ?! Certainly not due to the high degree of organization in the Linux project. :-)) This is the simple critical mass condition, nothing else, sometimes (StarDivision) coupled with the energy of developers that are using a particular system privately. We've been discussing this latter issue to death already, please followup to -chat if you think you have something to add to it. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)