Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 18:42:46 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: jbryant@tfs.net, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: question about X.25 drivers Message-ID: <7532.861068566@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 14 Apr 1997 17:11:17 PDT." <199704150011.RAA19967@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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> I still disagree with your definition of "practical reality", by the > way: it's nothing more than a cop out. Fine, have it your way. If refusing to live in a state of permanent denial is "copping out" then cop out I most definitely shall. > > If nobody actively maintains X.25 then it dies, period. > > Who is actively maintaining "more"? Should it die and go away? 8-). An excellent example. For my side of the argument! :) more, if it broke, would be quickly fixed (by someone, me if no one else) because so many people use it that it would also be quickly noted. If X.25 broke and nobody noticed it for a year, then obviously X.25 is in the "rarely if ever used" pile and probably need to go away. QED. > > 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... You're dreaming. I can load a copy of RedHat 4.1, a Linux distribution with significant "organizational backing", and point to about 4 major things that are broken (on their Linux/ALPHA distribution, for example, you can't even build a working kernel with supplied sources). On SCO, for 4 full months we were unable to build any of our sources with *either* of the XPG4 or the posix compatibility defines set because the include files were completely and utterly broken. Even getting SCO to admit to this was challenging, much less get it fixed. If this is effective code policing in action, give me anarchy. You, as usual, haven't got the faintest idea of what you're talking about. Jordan
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