Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 06:16:39 +0100 From: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" <karsten@rohrbach.de> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net> Cc: Michael Bacarella <mbac@nyct.net>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: idea: official hardware manufacturer blacklist - let's wake em up! Message-ID: <20000228061639.A79398@rohrbach.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002272342020.301-100000@picnic.mat.net>; from chuckr@picnic.mat.net on Sun, Feb 27, 2000 at 11:44:42PM -0500 References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10002272252090.16353-100000@bsd1.nyct.net> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002272342020.301-100000@picnic.mat.net>
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hm i mean, do the hardware people want their stuff supported or not? that's the main question some seem to choose the NOT. /k Chuck Robey(chuckr@picnic.mat.net)@Sun, Feb 27, 2000 at 11:44:42PM -0500: > On Sun, 27 Feb 2000, Michael Bacarella wrote: > > > > > I love the idea myself, but I have no power over FreeBSD :( > > You may not like the shape of the world, but I don't think getting > publicly nasty about it is going to have any positive effect. It WILL > have a negative effect, as FreeBSD would gather the reputation of very > vindictive; it's even very likely that, somewhere along that road, a > lawsuit over some wording would arise. > > You just can't get what you want all the time. > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Chuck Robey | Interests include C & Java programming, FreeBSD, > chuckr@picnic.mat.net | electronics, communications, and signal processing. > > New Year's Resolution: I will not sphroxify gullible people into looking up > fictitious words in the dictionary. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- > Experiments must be reproducible; they should all fail in the same way. http://www.webmonster.de http://www.apache.de http://www.splatterworld.de (NIC-HDL KR433/KR11-RIPE) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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