From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 11 17:01:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA09793 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 11 Jan 1996 17:01:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from schizo.cdsnet.net (schizo.cdsnet.net [204.118.244.32]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA09784 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 1996 17:01:00 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mrcpu@localhost) by schizo.cdsnet.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id RAA10367; Thu, 11 Jan 1996 17:04:33 -0800 Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 17:04:33 -0800 (PST) From: Jaye Mathisen To: dennis cc: Nate Williams , hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: pppd vs ijppp In-Reply-To: <199601112239.RAA00247@etinc.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk This whole idiotic conversation has passed waaaay beyond the interest level of probably 99% of hackers, given that the only two participants in this so called discussion are the two of you guys. Why don't you hop on IRC and bash it out, and then get back to us with a summary. On Thu, 11 Jan 1996, dennis wrote: > >[ 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 > >