From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 1 01:36:10 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A07A16A4DA for ; Fri, 1 Sep 2006 01:36:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tg@66h.42h.de) Received: from hephaistos.unixforge.de (unixforge.de [85.214.23.162]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E87A543D45 for ; Fri, 1 Sep 2006 01:36:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tg@66h.42h.de) Received: from herc.66h.42h.de (herc.vpn.gecko.ig3.net [192.168.100.7]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "herc.66h.42h.de", Issuer "CA Cert Signing Authority" (verified OK)) by hephaistos.unixforge.de (Sendmail) with ESMTP id 51D1C14123; Fri, 1 Sep 2006 01:36:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from odem.66h.42h.de (root@odem.mirbsd.org [IPv6:2001:6f8:94d:4:2c0:9fff:fe1a:6a01]) by herc.66h.42h.de (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k811XivI021898 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Fri, 1 Sep 2006 01:33:45 GMT Received: from odem.66h.42h.de (tg@localhost.66h.42h.de [IPv6:::1]) by odem.66h.42h.de (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k811XgvT031353 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 1 Sep 2006 01:33:43 GMT Received: (from tg@localhost) by odem.66h.42h.de (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id k811XgYv032325; Fri, 1 Sep 2006 01:33:42 GMT Received: by S/MIME Plugin for MirBSD 9 Kv#9s81-stable-20060819 i386; Fri Sep 1 01:33:40 UTC 2006 Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 01:33:39 +0000 (UTC) From: Thorsten Glaser X-X-Sender: tg@odem.66h.42h.de In-Reply-To: <20060831220609.B82634@hub.org> Message-ID: References: <20060830232723.GU10101@multics.mit.edu> <98f5a8830608301731s2b0663e3g94b0bd32f8a06a78@mail.gmail.com> <950621ad0608310654h78ae0023g346abd108815ae72@mail.gmail.com> <20060831110112.J82634@hub.org> <20060831184715.B82634@hub.org> <20060831223543.GC15085@jp.animata.net> <20060831195609.P82634@hub.org> <8a0028260608311655o7d34977cg2ad4465c4618781a@mail.gmail.com> <20060831220609.B82634@hub.org> X-Message-Flag: Your mailer is broken. Get an update at http://www.washington.edu/pine/getpine/pcpine.html for free. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: miros-discuss@mirbsd.org, misc@openbsd.org, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, netbsd-users@netbsd.org Subject: Re: The future of NetBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 01:36:10 -0000 (When do you stop putting people into Cc instead of just the lists?) Marc G. Fournier dixit: > source code drivers provided by a > vendor, and supported by them Yeah, and what if the vendor goes out of business, is bought or simply bankrupt? You're pretty much SOL then. //mirabile -- I believe no one can invent an algorithm. One just happens to hit upon it when God enlightens him. Or only God invents algorithms, we merely copy them. If you don't believe in God, just consider God as Nature if you won't deny existence. -- Coywolf Qi Hunt