From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Feb 27 21:16:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.webmonster.de (datasink.webmonster.de [194.162.162.209]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D453C37B5E0 for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2000 21:16:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from karsten@rohrbach.de) Received: (qmail 79450 invoked by uid 1000); 28 Feb 2000 05:16:39 -0000 Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 06:16:39 +0100 From: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" To: Chuck Robey Cc: Michael Bacarella , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: idea: official hardware manufacturer blacklist - let's wake em up! Message-ID: <20000228061639.A79398@rohrbach.de> Reply-To: karsten@rohrbach.de References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from chuckr@picnic.mat.net on Sun, Feb 27, 2000 at 11:44:42PM -0500 X-Arbitrary-Number-Of-The-Day: 42 X-Sender: karsten@rohrbach.de Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hm i mean, do the hardware people want their stuff supported or not? that's the main question some seem to choose the NOT. /k Chuck Robey(chuckr@picnic.mat.net)@Sun, Feb 27, 2000 at 11:44:42PM -0500: > On Sun, 27 Feb 2000, Michael Bacarella wrote: > > > > > I love the idea myself, but I have no power over FreeBSD :( > > You may not like the shape of the world, but I don't think getting > publicly nasty about it is going to have any positive effect. It WILL > have a negative effect, as FreeBSD would gather the reputation of very > vindictive; it's even very likely that, somewhere along that road, a > lawsuit over some wording would arise. > > You just can't get what you want all the time. > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Chuck Robey | Interests include C & Java programming, FreeBSD, > chuckr@picnic.mat.net | electronics, communications, and signal processing. > > New Year's Resolution: I will not sphroxify gullible people into looking up > fictitious words in the dictionary. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- > Experiments must be reproducible; they should all fail in the same way. http://www.webmonster.de http://www.apache.de http://www.splatterworld.de (NIC-HDL KR433/KR11-RIPE) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message