Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 18:01:06 +0100 (MET) From: sos@FreeBSD.org To: p.richards@elsevier.co.uk (Paul Richards) Cc: sos@FreeBSD.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Who needs Perl? We do! Message-ID: <199611211701.SAA01512@ravenock.cybercity.dk> In-Reply-To: <57n2wb8lnl.fsf@tees.elsevier.co.uk> from "Paul Richards" at Nov 21, 96 04:20:46 pm
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In reply to Paul Richards who wrote:
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> Soren Schmidt <sos@ravenock.cybercity.dk> writes:
>
> > I have a very good example, I stated some month back that I'd
> > take reponsibility of the atapi/ide driver and do a rewrite,
> > because there was ALOT of talk about how miserable our current
> > implementation was. I also stated that in order to do that I
> > needed some samples of atapi/ide equipment as I dont have the
> > funding for doing that (and given I had I'd buy SCSI :) )
> > but I didn't get ONE single reponse of that kind, no sir, but
> > I got alot of "let me test it, gimme, gimme, gimme".
>
> C'mon. You make valid point generally but this last paragraph is
> silly. I'm not surprised that you haven't received any
> hardware. People don't happen to have kit just sitting there doing
> nothing, it's generally all they've got and they can't just send it
> off to some developer somewhere, I seem to remember your conditions
> regarding their return weren't very encouraging either. This is even
> more the case for people with IDE kit (no offense implied to anyone
> here) since it's generally budget kit so people aren't going to send
> off hardware they've struggled to save for.
>
> I think this is a very unfair generalisation, *most* FreeBSD users are
> on tight budgets and those that aren't are SCSI shops anyway and I
> tend to find that SCSI folks would rather see IDE die :-)
Catch-22...
> I'd be encouraged by the fact that a lot of people were willing to
> volunteer their time to test it.
Sure, but it doesn't work that way unfortunately...
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Even more code to hack -- will it ever end
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