From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 30 09:07:58 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA19531 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 30 Jan 1997 09:07:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA19523 for ; Thu, 30 Jan 1997 09:07:54 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id JAA22108; Thu, 30 Jan 1997 09:48:30 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199701301648.JAA22108@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: The continuting email... To: mcgovern@spoon.beta.com (Brian J. McGovern) Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 09:48:30 -0700 (MST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199701300505.AAA09649@spoon.beta.com> from "Brian J. McGovern" at Jan 30, 97 00:05:43 am 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 > >Do you read Dilbert? If it weren't for your other comments, I would have > >to say that you were trained management. You need to lift your eyes a > >little and look at the longer-term benefits of a given exercise. > > There are long term benefits, and there are short term realities. The long > term benefits is that I may get good at this. The short term reality is > that I have a certain length of time to aquire the information to do this. > If the time required is excessive, or unrealistic, it makes a better > choice to either hire someone to do it, or wait for someone else to do > it, and put my energies where not only will I have efficiency, but I'll > have success. I want to add a note here: the place he will probably put his energies is Linux, which has a well documented DDI/DKI. The assumption here is that he is the pet device driver writer for a given hardware vendor, not a FreeBSD fanatic who has decided to dive into writing devices. Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.