From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 11 14:40:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA01360 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 11 Jan 1996 14:40:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from etinc.com (et-gw.etinc.com [165.254.13.209]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA01349 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 1996 14:40:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from ppp-082.etinc.com (ppp-082.etinc.com [204.141.95.142]) by etinc.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id RAA00247; Thu, 11 Jan 1996 17:39:13 -0500 Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 17:39:13 -0500 Message-Id: <199601112239.RAA00247@etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@etinc.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 2.0.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Nate Williams From: dennis@etinc.com (dennis) Subject: Re: pppd vs ijppp Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >[ Dennis doing the work to bring in the features of user-PPP into kernel-PPP ] > >> We made a corporate decision some time ago not to do software only >> solutions (as we had done before we built our sync boards) shortly >> after the theft to sales ratio topped 10 to 1. I suspect that the >> ratio of a ppp product might be more like 250 to 1. No thanks. Maybe >> when i retire and get tired of leisure activities...... > >Who spoke anything about your company doing it, or anything to do with >money. I was hoping you'd return some of the benefits FreeBSD has given >you by doing it for free, like the rest of us. :) > yeah, right! You dont see too many hackers in NY...maybe because we have to work all the time to pay our mortgages and taxes....... Contributions can be made in other ways. I promote the O/S...which is not nothing..If I wanted to contribute to something it would be to make LINUX better, because theres a lot more market there. But I like freebsd... db ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Emerging Technologies, Inc. http://www.etinc.com Synchronous Communications Cards and Routers For Discriminating Tastes. 56k to T1 and beyond. Frame Relay, PPP, HDLC, and X.25