From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 2 12:17:26 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA07924 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 2 Sep 1996 12:17:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA07916; Mon, 2 Sep 1996 12:17:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id MAA02663; Mon, 2 Sep 1996 12:15:19 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199609021915.MAA02663@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Specs on a Hitachi CM2085me monitor anybody ?? To: michaelv@MindBender.serv.net (Michael L. VanLoon -- MindBender.serv.net) Date: Mon, 2 Sep 1996 12:15:19 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, nate@mt.sri.com, richmond@cronus.oanet.com, sos@freebsd.org, durham@phaeton.artisoft.com, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199608312327.QAA16185@MindBender.serv.net> from "Michael L. VanLoon -- MindBender.serv.net" at Aug 31, 96 04:27:40 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 > >> I doubt you can 'blame' the coders. 99% of the video cards sold have > >> been for platforms running M$ OS's, so therefore why spend the time > >> necessary to have a 'generic' solution when one isn't necessary. > > >Professionalism? > > When has "professionalism" ever meant increased market share and/or > increased profit in the PeeCee industry? ;-) Two years down the road, when you go to start your next product life cycle and are trying to find a market that doesn't think your company produces mediocre products? Who cares anyway -- we're engineers, not management. Professionalism is what we have. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.