Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 10:04:04 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: terry@lambert.org, jbryant@tfs.net, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: question about X.25 drivers Message-ID: <199704151704.KAA22532@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <7532.861068566@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Apr 14, 97 06:42:46 pm
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> > I still disagree with your definition of "practical reality", by the > > way: it's nothing more than a cop out. > > Fine, have it your way. If refusing to live in a state of permanent > denial is "copping out" then cop out I most definitely shall. Yiou're the one denying possibility by citing practicality, not me. > more, if it broke, would be quickly fixed (by someone, me if no one > else) because so many people use it that it would also be quickly > noted. If X.25 broke and nobody noticed it for a year, then obviously > X.25 is in the "rarely if ever used" pile and probably need to go > away. And "more" can't "break"... it depends on POSIX system calls and standardized libraries. If what X.25 depended on had also been standardized, then this conversation would not be happening, since it would not have "broken". > QED. It "being gone" demonstrates nothing other than it is gone. > You're dreaming. I can load a copy of RedHat 4.1, a Linux > distribution with significant "organizational backing", and point to > about 4 major things that are broken (on their Linux/ALPHA > distribution, for example, you can't even build a working kernel with > supplied sources). So point them out to Red Hat. I'm sure they'll be fixed. Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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