Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2006 19:19:42 -0400 From: "Constantine A. Murenin" <mureninc@gmail.com> To: "Marco Peereboom" <slash@peereboom.us> Cc: netbsd-users@netbsd.org, misc@openbsd.org, "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@freebsd.org>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, miros-discuss@mirbsd.org Subject: Re: The future of NetBSD Message-ID: <f34ca13c0609091619i2363af2cl7bac2c28b3721fe9@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20060905141802.GB5021@peereboom.us> References: <20060831110112.J82634@hub.org> <20060831184715.B82634@hub.org> <44F7619B.8010609@evilkittens.org> <20060831192632.T82634@hub.org> <20060831225719.GG25515@ribeyre.gentiane.org> <20060831200228.B82634@hub.org> <20060831230642.GH25515@ribeyre.gentiane.org> <20060831201338.F82634@hub.org> <20060905070219.GC13764@titan.klemm.apsfilter.org> <20060905141802.GB5021@peereboom.us>
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On 05/09/06, Marco Peereboom <slash@peereboom.us> wrote: > > I don't think that binary only drivers are well enough. > > Surely better than nothing but ... > > No fucking way. No support is FAR FAR better than a blob. Yes, really! Indeed! When something brakes, do you want it to continue to work as if nothing has happened and lose your data silently, or do you want it to give you some indication that it needs attention? * With binary drivers, it's always broken (and if it's not, it's guaranteed to be broken in the future), but some people tend to [foolishly] think that it's working. * With drivers written from proper documentation by developers who know their OS, it just works. BTW, I'd argue that the same principle applies to the manufacturer-supplied drivers for closed-source operating systems like Windows -- it's better to have the drivers written by people who know the OS it's written under, not by some random people hired by the company that produced the hardware (which would never be the same people who designed the hardware anyway, because people who design hardware don't usually write software for it, and vice-versa). Cheers, Constantine.
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