From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 14 17:33:06 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA27546 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 14 Apr 1997 17:33:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA27539 for ; Mon, 14 Apr 1997 17:33:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id RAA19967; Mon, 14 Apr 1997 17:11:17 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199704150011.RAA19967@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: question about X.25 drivers To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 17:11:17 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, jbryant@tfs.net, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <6943.861059634@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Apr 14, 97 04:13:54 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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.