Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 16:51:42 -0700 From: "Ted Unangst" <ted.unangst@gmail.com> To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@freebsd.org> Cc: misc@openbsd.org, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The future of NetBSD Message-ID: <4109e9180608311651u78a58baax67e028b350fac227@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20060831195609.P82634@hub.org> References: <20060830232723.GU10101@multics.mit.edu> <98f5a8830608301731s2b0663e3g94b0bd32f8a06a78@mail.gmail.com> <c6d37fe0608310259k12fe629eve59e59042fcfdb4c@mail.gmail.com> <Pine.BSM.4.64L.0608311312190.8977@odem.66h.42h.de> <950621ad0608310654h78ae0023g346abd108815ae72@mail.gmail.com> <20060831110112.J82634@hub.org> <f34ca13c0608310843p4e28b57eoec2f60737c034ddb@mail.gmail.com> <20060831184715.B82634@hub.org> <20060831223543.GC15085@jp.animata.net> <20060831195609.P82634@hub.org>
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On 8/31/06, Marc G. Fournier <scrappy@freebsd.org> wrote: > > Vendors should release documentation, not write drivers. > > In a perfect world, they all would ... this is not a perfect world, it is > one dominated by Linux or Microsoft ... I use Adaptec drivers on 3 of my > servers, because, in 4.x, they were rock solid ... in 6.x, they have a > problem ... I'd like to be able to go out and upgrade those servers to a > vendor that provides "documentation", but its a cost I can't afford at funny. sounds to me like someone could fix the bugs if they had documentation. the sad part is you refuse to learn. you had a driver that used to work and you didn't care that no docs meant you couldn't maintain it. what happened? you got burned. so now you want a new driver that works, but you don't care about getting the docs to assure that it will still work later. i look forward to reading an identical email in 2 years with s/6/8/ and s/4/6/. if your only interest is a driver that works today, you will be reamed on the upgrade every time. *every* time. drivers stop working. documentation doesn't.
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