From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 15 02:56:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA00204 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 15 Apr 1997 02:56:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from inter03.lion.net ([195.50.148.67]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA00190 for ; Tue, 15 Apr 1997 02:56:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lucky.lion.de ([192.109.89.2]) by inter03.lion.net (Netscape Mail Server v2.0) with SMTP id AAA6382; Tue, 15 Apr 1997 11:53:19 +0200 Received: from willi.lion.de by lucky.lion.de (SMI-8.6/SMI-4.1) id LAA28706; Tue, 15 Apr 1997 11:54:50 +0200 Received: from localhost by willi.lion.de (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA03851; Tue, 15 Apr 1997 11:53:27 +0200 Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 11:53:27 +0200 (MET DST) From: Christoph Haas To: Terry Lambert Cc: Christoph Haas , dennis@etinc.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, haas@lion.de Subject: Re: Commercial vendors registry In-Reply-To: <199704142034.NAA19260@phaeton.artisoft.com> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 14 Apr 1997, Terry Lambert wrote: > > I really think that our view of FreeBSD is too technical. We should start > > to care about what people are doing with it, not only thinking of what > > features to add next. > > > A big part of this is, IMO, taking care to not break things unnecessarily, > either by not exposing the internals of things we intend to change, or > not changing the things for which we have exposed internals. Agreed, but isn't most of FreeBSD "exposed internals" ? Whoever wants to can read in the sources looking at how things are implemented. And if he relies on those internals instead of defined interfaces to certain services, he can be sure that his code breaks next time someone commits a change to these internals. Christoph -- Christoph Haas o.tel.o GmbH | Never trust an operating UNIX Sysadmin Universitaetsstrasse 140| system you don't have the 44799 Bochum / Germany | sources for. mailto:haas@lion.de http://www.o-tel-o.de | http://www.freebsd.org