From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Oct 22 10:45:56 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id KAA29462 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 22 Oct 1995 10:45:56 -0700 Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA29457 for ; Sun, 22 Oct 1995 10:45:55 -0700 Received: (from julian@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA23167; Sun, 22 Oct 1995 10:45:42 -0700 From: Julian Elischer Message-Id: <199510221745.KAA23167@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: Freeware reward????? To: dennis@etinc.com (dennis) Date: Sun, 22 Oct 1995 10:45:41 -0700 (PDT) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199510221742.NAA07437@etinc.com> from "dennis" at Oct 22, 95 01:42:17 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1148 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > "Freeware" drivers are not competition. They just eliminate the pikers. > Given that most > commercial companies have trouble doing commercially acceptable products in > this area > , whats the chance that some guy with way too much free time can do better? well, it depends on the guy :) > > > Is this for the "best" resulting product, or the first? Or don't you care? One interesting side effect of being a source-OS is that once the first version is written, other people improve on it till it becomes acceptable.. there are lots of people who don't feel competant to start a driver from scratch, but who would happily leap in and extend/modify an existing one.. so in fact the answer might actually be the "first resulting product", and "no we don't care", but only on the understanding that the product will be worked on by multitudes.. :) > > > Dennis > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Emerging Technologies, Inc. http://www.etinc.com > > Synchronous Communications Cards and Routers For > Discriminating Tastes. 56k to T1 and beyond. Frame > Relay, PPP, HDLC, and X.25 > > >