Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 13:26:51 +0100 From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> To: "Brian T. Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org>, "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: USB CF reader (SanDisk) epilog Message-ID: <000501c19dbf$e90f4150$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <002301c19b4e$6ee9b950$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <034b54618140e12FE8@mail8.nc.rr.com> <021401c19dab$7cfa6e40$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <0ab070058100f12FE6@Mail6.nc.rr.com>
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Brian writes: > Well, if you expect people to read the code > and really figure things out when you are > just posting to a user group list your > expectations are way too high. That's just it ... there are no other options. For someone using the system personally as I am, in only a semi-production mode, this is tolerable, given that the OS is free; but this problem makes it extremely hard to recommend FreeBSD or other open-source solutions for real production use. Posting to a newsgroup or mailing list in the hope of getting some support on a critical issue is just not acceptable for many applications. At least with commercial software, you have a hotline you can call (usually)--although it is not widely known that the technical support groups of most software companies are literally doing exactly the same thing you do when you post to a newsgroup. (I suppose that if this were common knowledge, people would be more willing to consider open-source software--after all, if you're going to get rotten support either way, why not go with free software instead of software that costs money?) > *You* are more than welcome to read and fix > the code, though. I don't have any documentation that would allow me to do that. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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