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From: Alexander Maret <maret@axis.de>
To: 'Nick Hibma' <nick.hibma@jrc.it>
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Subject: RE: xl driver for 3Com 
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 11:14:44 +0200 
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Hi,	

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nick Hibma [mailto:nick.hibma@jrc.it]
> Sent: Dienstag, 1. Juni 1999 11:01
> To: Alexander Maret
> Cc: FreeBSD hackers mailing list
> Subject: RE: xl driver for 3Com 
> 
> This comparison with Linux is completely off. The number of 
> knowledgable
> people working on USB for example is equivalent to the ones 
> in FreeBSD.

What do you want to tell me with this sentence? Don't you like
to be compared with linux? Well, if the same configuration runs on
linux and not on a FreeBSD system then it can be a configuration error
or a bug. Well if there are difference people always will compare.
I compared those system to show that it can't be a hardware error because
it runs with other systems.


> FreeBSD developers do things in their spare time and they want other
> people to respect that. They want to see some investment from 
> the other
> side as well to make it worthwhile.
> And if that trade off is not what
> you want, there are companies out there that solve problems for money
> (http://www.freebsd.org).

Well what do you want then? You're on the one hand whining that people don't
post bug reports and on the other hand you say: "Go away and ask other
people".
I didn't want configuration support but wanted to show that there is an
ERROR!!!

> Skipping to another card is short-term thinking. You assume 
> that without
> your participation a new driver will be developed for another card, or
> another operating system will provide you with services.

You're wrong! I tried to participate but everybody just told me that I'm an
idiot. Well perhaps they're right but if nobody wants to hear my bug report
then I'll use another card. A card which driver has been better tested and
where
gifted programmers did the bug reports.

Alex


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