From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 20 12:45:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA06057 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 20 Mar 1997 12:45:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA06033 for ; Thu, 20 Mar 1997 12:45:30 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA29840; Thu, 20 Mar 1997 13:33:54 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199703202033.NAA29840@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Barb problem, FOUND To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 13:33:53 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, james@wgold.demon.co.uk, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Warner Losh" at Mar 20, 97 12:40:31 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > : The argument is without merit: if a compiler is buggy, it should be > : fixed, or the vendor should be forced out of business by word of mouth. > > That's a very high and noble attitude, but sadly products have to be > shipped and often times you are't in the position to be able to fix a > vendor's product *NOW*. Ditch your vendor. Eventually he will fix it for loss of business over the problem, or he will disappear for loss of business over the problem. Either way, the vendor is not a long term issue for this kind of problem. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.