From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 6 15:50:44 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB82616A4CE for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2005 15:50:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: from imo-d04.mx.aol.com (imo-d04.mx.aol.com [205.188.157.36]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7532643D49 for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2005 15:50:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Tm4528@aol.com) Received: from Tm4528@aol.com by imo-d04.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v37_r3.8.) id s.da.1c8aa060 (14374); Thu, 6 Jan 2005 10:50:21 -0500 (EST) From: Tm4528@aol.com Message-ID: Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 10:50:20 EST To: tedm@toybox.placo.com MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: 9.0 for Windows sub 5116 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Supermicro Hardware and FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 15:50:45 -0000 In a message dated 1/6/05 1:44:54 AM Eastern Standard Time, tedm@toybox.placo.com writes: > > One system cost me 3 months salary in Russia. Is this how you > treat your users? Why can't your developer use the machine they > used to make 5.3 work? > > >YOU are not PAYING the FreeBSD developers to develop for your >particular SuperMicro motherboard. Teddy, Its the most prevalent and popolar chipset on the market, Ted. At least pretend to be somewhat competent at your trade. End uses shouldnt have to fund "organization" touting "free" OSs on mainstream chipsets. Its ridiculous that you don't support it. TM