From owner-freebsd-current Tue Apr 2 10:27:04 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA13337 for current-outgoing; Tue, 2 Apr 1996 10:27:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from brasil.moneng.mei.com (brasil.moneng.mei.com [151.186.109.160]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA13331 for ; Tue, 2 Apr 1996 10:26:56 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jgreco@localhost) by brasil.moneng.mei.com (8.7.Beta.1/8.7.Beta.1) id MAA26726; Tue, 2 Apr 1996 12:25:08 -0600 From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <199604021825.MAA26726@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Subject: Re: Advice/Recommendation needed To: julian@ref.tfs.com (JULIAN Elischer) Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 12:25:08 -0600 (CST) Cc: cat@ghost.uunet.ca, current@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199604012304.PAA05402@ref.tfs.com> from "JULIAN Elischer" at Apr 1, 96 03:04:11 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Oh I forgot..... > > > someone to hang out the window if things aren't working. (Hell - someone > > to sue, if it comes to that). > (*) > > > > Free OS's are a wonderful thing - they let people use UNIX that might never > > otherwise be able to afford to do so; they offer source so that people can > > learn about how things work...but they don't offer a place for the buck to stop. > (*) > what a depressingly american attitude.. You're writing to someone at uunet.ca :-) ^^ > offered the oportunity to control your own destiny, the answer is > "sorry I don't want the responsibility.. I'd rather be able top blame > some-one else.. Well, that's not always the case. Around here, the buck stops here, and even though the answer is sometimes that I can't or won't do something about a particular problem, I'd still rather be running FreeBSD because at least I have a chance to be able to do something about a problem. > unfortunatly we're seeing more and more of this elsewhere in the world too.. A new generation of computer users, with a total lack of regard for what has been done by others, yet expect all those same great things to be handed to them on a silver platter... That sort of falls back to the "support" issue. Even here at work, people don't understand why it is when they find a bug in a GNU tool, I suggest to them that they find and fix the problem, and submit a bug report and patch.. ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/546-7968