From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Mar 11 11:37:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from tardis.patho.gen.nz (tardis.patho.gen.nz [203.97.2.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5F8D37BC20 for ; Sat, 11 Mar 2000 11:37:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jabley@tardis.patho.gen.nz) Received: (from jabley@localhost) by tardis.patho.gen.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA00282; Sun, 12 Mar 2000 08:37:40 +1300 (NZDT) Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 08:37:38 +1300 From: Joe Abley To: Dennis Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD dead? Well, not in theory... Message-ID: <20000312083736.A27614@patho.gen.nz> References: <200003101840.NAA12885@etinc.com> <200003111841.NAA17534@etinc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <200003111841.NAA17534@etinc.com>; from dennis@etinc.com on Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 01:36:31PM -0500 X-Files: the Truth is Out There Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 01:36:31PM -0500, Dennis wrote: > Not realistically. First of all, most "scruffy unshaven hackers" are not > qualified to make serious changes to important drivers. they might be able > to find a stray pointer, but not to make structural improvement. This is just silly. > Another point is that Open Source is virtually synonomous with "Totally > undocumented". This is sillier. > My point was that because of open source you have an unfinished product > that never gets finished. That's the description of a product that is still alive. A product on which development stops is a dead product. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message