From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 14 03:11:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA00904 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 14 Apr 1997 03:11:49 -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 DAA00899 for ; Mon, 14 Apr 1997 03:11:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id MAA03406 for hackers@freebsd.org; Mon, 14 Apr 1997 12:11:37 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA01287; Mon, 14 Apr 1997 12:10:06 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970414121005.VV52872@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 12:10:05 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Commercial vendors registry References: <19970414091216.YL45051@uriah.heep.sax.de> 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 Alex Belits on Apr 14, 1997 01:50:56 -0700 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Alex Belits wrote: > ...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. So what? Do you want us to remove these drivers? -- 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. ;-)