From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Mar 22 16:31:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA06306 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sun, 22 Mar 1998 16:31:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA06288 for ; Sun, 22 Mar 1998 16:31:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doconnor@cain.gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id LAA28146; Mon, 23 Mar 1998 11:01:05 +1030 (CST) Message-Id: <199803230031.LAA28146@cain.gsoft.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Ted Spradley cc: "Matthew D. Fuller" , Drew Derbyshire - UUPC/extended software support , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: after the release ... In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 20 Mar 1998 15:09:16 MDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 11:01:05 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > I have trouble understanding the comfort part here. How does one feel more c > omfortable applying a big binary patch? The point of free (as in freedom) so > ftware is that you get the sources. With a binary patch you get the assuranc > es of a faceless corporation that you will be allowed to spend hours listenin > g to music on the telephone if you have difficulty with the binary patch. Is > that more comfortable than learning to type "make world"? Hmm.... "make world" costs 300mB of HD space :) And you need to keep your sources up to date.. *I* do it, but lots of people don't... --------------------------------------------------------------------- |Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software | |http://www.gsoft.com.au | |The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to| |choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum | --------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message