Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 11:06:35 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Sorry about sysinstall. Message-ID: <XFMail.20030918110635.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <3F69644A.69CB5363@mindspring.com>
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On 18-Sep-2003 Terry Lambert wrote: > Nik Clayton wrote: >> This in no way prevents you from shipping your own installer CD which >> you describe in your documentation as the preferred method to install. >> >> Then, if the customer has problems installing FreeBSd using your >> installer, and comes to the project's mailing lists for help, they'll >> be told to either contact your customer support, or use the project's >> installer which you will have shipped as part of your product. >> >> Why is this so hard for you to understand? > > It's not hard for me to understand. > > It's just annoying. > > Do you see the similarities between some hypothetical person > with a third party FreeBSD installer that installs the same > damn FreeBS plus the same damn packages, and having some well > known FreeBSD problem biting them, being told to reinstall > "using the project's installer", because *somehow*, "it *must* > be the GUI version of sysintall that's biting them on the ass" > when the battery monitor in KDE fails to work with their > laptop? Try and find one instance on current, hackers, arch, etc. where someone reported a bug and someone else asked them which installer they used to install the box. > It's assinine to limit something because of a hypothetical > situation that could be engineered against anyway, but even > if it wasn't, will probably never occur. It's assinine to make bogus, unfounded statements about the developers on the mailing lists and their responses to bug reports. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/
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