Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 09:24:05 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Dennis <dennis@etinc.com> Cc: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>, Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@messagingdirect.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: if_fxp - the real point Message-ID: <20010314092405.E29888@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <5.0.0.25.0.20010314123346.01f13260@mail.etinc.com>; from dennis@etinc.com on Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 12:36:06PM -0500 References: <5.0.0.25.0.20010314110743.02373a00@mail.etinc.com> <200103092332.f29NW4785782@gollum.esys.ca> <20010309221250.2384337B71B@hub.freebsd.org> <200103092332.f29NW4785782@gollum.esys.ca> <20010314123503.C74704@daemon.ninth-circle.org> <5.0.0.25.0.20010314110743.02373a00@mail.etinc.com> <20010314090915.D29888@fw.wintelcom.net> <5.0.0.25.0.20010314123346.01f13260@mail.etinc.com>
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* Dennis <dennis@etinc.com> [010314 09:21] wrote: > At 12:09 PM 03/14/2001, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > >* Dennis <dennis@etinc.com> [010314 08:14] wrote: > > > > > > A better strategy would be to welcome ALL vendors AND binary distributions > > > (who may release source under NDA if they chose) so that the best products > > > could be available for FreeBSD without the adversity of the > > > "geek-revolution" that you propose. > > > >I don't know about that: > > > >how many times does windows crash because of poorly written drivers > >rather than flaws in the core OS? (*) > > > Im not sure of what the difference is. There are many poorly written > drivers in FreeBSD and linux also. The fact that you have source may be > soothing, but it doesnt help the 99% of people that cant fix it themselves. At least we can point at the driver and call it a honking bunch of poo rather than allowing the blame to hit the core OS. Honestly, I'd love to see vendors able to work out shipping drivers for FreeBSD, even in binary form, it would make users happy. I would just be pretty hard pressed to use them though. :) -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] Daemon News Magazine in your snail-mail! http://magazine.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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