Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 21:03:33 -0500 From: Sergey Babkin <babkin@bellatlantic.net> To: Jeremiah Gowdy <jgowdy@home.com> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Dennis <dennis@etinc.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs Linux, Solaris, and NT Message-ID: <3A401375.9483F773@bellatlantic.net> References: <Your message of "Tue, 19 Dec 2000 11:43:17 EST." <5.0.0.25.0.20001219111044.020739e0@mail.etinc.com> <5.0.0.25.0.20001219120619.020cbac0@mail.etinc.com> <001401c069e7$8ed5c4f0$aa240018@cx443070b>
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Jeremiah Gowdy wrote: > > pull off. Not that I don't appreciate the work of the people who write BSD > drivers, the people who put time and effort into BSD drivers are some of my > favorite people in the world, but it's terribly obvious that if a card or > device is not documented, that the company is going to provide a better > binary driver than what a BSD programmer could put together (okay, broad > generalization, but I'll stand by it in most cases). The closed source A gross misconcept. If someone has full set of docs that does not mean that he actually does read and understand them completely. Worse yet, the authors of commercial drivers often have a very vague idea of how their drivers should interact with the OS. -SB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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