Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 08:37:38 +1300 From: Joe Abley <jabley@patho.gen.nz> To: Dennis <dennis@etinc.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD dead? Well, not in theory... Message-ID: <20000312083736.A27614@patho.gen.nz> In-Reply-To: <200003111841.NAA17534@etinc.com>; from dennis@etinc.com on Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 01:36:31PM -0500 References: <200003101840.NAA12885@etinc.com> <Pine.BSF.4.05.10003111306520.14049-100000@bsd1.nyct.net> <200003111841.NAA17534@etinc.com>
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On Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 01:36:31PM -0500, Dennis wrote: > Not realistically. First of all, most "scruffy unshaven hackers" are not > qualified to make serious changes to important drivers. they might be able > to find a stray pointer, but not to make structural improvement. This is just silly. > Another point is that Open Source is virtually synonomous with "Totally > undocumented". This is sillier. > My point was that because of open source you have an unfinished product > that never gets finished. That's the description of a product that is still alive. A product on which development stops is a dead product. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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