From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 30 14:51:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from et-gw.etinc.com (et-gw.etinc.com [207.252.1.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1AB637B719 for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2001 14:51:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dennis@etinc.com) Received: from dbsys.etinc.com (dbsys.etinc.com [207.252.1.18]) by et-gw.etinc.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA06760; Fri, 30 Mar 2001 17:52:31 GMT (envelope-from dennis@etinc.com) Message-Id: <5.0.0.25.0.20010330174731.04291540@mail.etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@mail.etinc.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0 Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 18:10:05 -0500 To: Drew Eckhardt From: Dennis Subject: Re: if_fxp - the real point Cc: seebs@plethora.net (Peter Seebach), hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <200103301950.f2UJoNO26356@chopper.Poohsticks.ORG> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 02:50 PM 03/30/2001, Drew Eckhardt wrote: >In message <5.0.0.25.0.20010330134837.03f30d20@mail.etinc.com>, >dennis@etinc.co >m writes: > >And lets face it. If MS had a good product, they would have a much larger > >market share and linux would be a non-issue. MS just makes shitty stuff. > >Its not about "open source". > >Directly, it isn't. > >Indirectly, it is. > > >its about how well it works. > >Although that comes from the software being open source. If it's open >source and broken enough to affect me or my employer, This is a lot like trying to convince a jew that theres nothing wrong with cheeseburgers. Open source has its place, but its not going to take over the world. Deal with it. FreeBSD is not even better than Windows out of the box, because you need an experienced unix person to set up the box. It doesnt matter if its better, because you can't FIND experienced unix people. The economics of open source will not allow it to dominate, because there arent enough good programmers to make it work. Im arguing with a guy from "poohsticks.org". What am i thinking? lol db To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message