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Subject: Re: Legacy Device Support (Was RE: No help...)
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Anthony Rubin" <arubin@concentric.net>
To: "R. D. Davis" <rdd@smart.net>; "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>
Cc: "Lawrence Cotnam Jr." <larry@pkunk.net>; "Josh Paetzel"
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Subject: Re: Legacy Device Support (Was RE: No help...)


> What is wrong with you people?  FreeBSD is a free operating system
developed
> by *volunteers*.  A few of you talk about it like these volunteers owe you
> something.  I'm sure the mentality of the FreeBSD development team is not
> that they want everyone to upgrade every time a new version comes out, but
> someone has to do the work to keep the drivers (amoung other things) up to
> date.  The best thing any of you could do is help in some way instead of
> complaining.
>
> Anthony Rubin
> Hoffman Estates, IL
> arubin@concentric.net
>
>

I agree with this wholeheartedly....and I still have to ask the question:
If you have a version of FBSD that supports your hardware, why are you
upgrading to a version that doesn't?

Josh

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