Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 10:40:24 -0500 From: Peter Philipp <pjp@dega.daemonium.com> To: Dennis <dennis@etinc.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: if_fxp - the real point Message-ID: <20010330104024.B2589@dega.daemonium.com> In-Reply-To: <5.0.0.25.0.20010329212102.03dc5ac0@mail.etinc.com>; from dennis@etinc.com on Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 09:40:05PM -0500 References: <5.0.0.25.0.20010328165848.03e9bcd0@mail.etinc.com> <5.0.0.25.0.20010329183557.030eeda0@mail.etinc.com> <3AC3D152.7D0FD148@soekris.com> <5.0.0.25.0.20010329212102.03dc5ac0@mail.etinc.com>
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On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 09:40:05PM -0500, Dennis wrote: > Im sure that Intel is really sweating over your decision. I think they should. When people realise they are buying into something tainted and undisclosed only open to an 'elite' crowd (like dennis) then people will look elsewhere. There is something called responsibility and honor also in the business world. The consumer ignorance that has exceeded ueber-extremes is coming to an abrupt halt as people are empowering themselves with information on what exactly it is that they are buying into. And.. in the end that's only fair. > Using yourself as an example was brilliant. YOU are exactly the kind of > engineer/company that I am talking about. YOU will release your design > specs so the FreeBSD community will get to use your hardware instead of > intels. Wooopee do. All the power to him, at least here is someone that doesn't hide behind some futile business model of hiding the scam behind closed doors. This way of doing things at least provides a product not for the sake of making more money than the competition but raising the worlds trek to better engineering and new limits. > You, my friend, are a joke. Im sorry (other list members)...do you have any You should be more sorry. Whether open or closed discussion you leash out at people putting them down and being plain insulting! Please do yourself a favour and drop the ego, as there is people out there than can put you down and make you feel very miserable and alone in the end. Be fair and others will be fair to you. > clue how much money intel makes, and how insignificant your (wrong) opinion > is to them? and, while I dont have the actual numbers, I'll bet that intel There is a lot more worth in being human and caring about all the things that money can't provide. Money in extremes (either very poor or very rich) makes people very unhappy and you can see this if you'd be open to it. > and 3com have well over 50% of the linux/BSD free software market without > releasing their docs. Why? because they make good, cheap boards that are > available from many sources worldwide. > > do you want to take that away from BSD users by "boycotting" their hardware? > > why cant this thread just die? ditto. give it a rest. -- - - Peter Philipp <pjp@daemonium.com> Daemonium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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