Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 17:11:17 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: terry@lambert.org, jbryant@tfs.net, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: question about X.25 drivers Message-ID: <199704150011.RAA19967@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <6943.861059634@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Apr 14, 97 04:13:54 pm
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> > Again, the existing X.25 code did not change, FreeBSD did. It is not > > the code which is unusable by FreeBSD, it is FreeBSD which i incapable > > of using the code. > > Yeah, sure. As usual, you fail to distinguish between the practical > realities and your idealized vision of How It Should Be(tm). On the contrary, I not only make the distinction, I note the magnitude of the dicrepancy. I still disagree with your definition of "practical reality", by the way: it's nothing more than a cop out. > If nobody actively maintains X.25 then it dies, period. Who is actively maintaining "more"? Should it die and go away? 8-). > There are no Code Police to ensure that anything that anyone does > will not break something in the farthest-flung corners of the system > and there aren't likely to be anytime soon. Well, that's a damn shame. Commrecial organizations have them, and so does Linux... > Your point, as usual, is more or less correct but fundamentally > useless. You must be a mathematician or something. :-) Physicist; far more practical than mathematicians. Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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