Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 17:44:58 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Dennis <dennis@etinc.com> Cc: Boris <koester@x-itec.de>, Murray Stokely <murray@osd.bsdi.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs Linux, Solaris, and NT Message-ID: <43070.977244298@critter> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 19 Dec 2000 11:43:17 EST." <5.0.0.25.0.20001219111044.020739e0@mail.etinc.com>
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In message <5.0.0.25.0.20001219111044.020739e0@mail.etinc.com>, Dennis writes: > >>Device Drivers >>-------------- >>I donīt like binary only device drivers. The code of an operating >>system is more complex than a driver. if a company does not want to >>publish the sourcecode, the should go away. > >You've lost all credibility here. We have a saying in Denmark, which I'm sure exist in as many forms as there are languages in the world: "A thief belive everybody steals." Dennis, considering the recorded history of your arguments in our mailing list archives, hearing you come out and praise closed source drivers for open source OS's rings very very hollow. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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