Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 13:54:49 -0700 (PDT) From: The Devil Himself <fullermd@narcissus.ml.org> To: dennis <dennis@etinc.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Price of FreeBSD (was On Holy Wars...) Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96.970418134709.12625A-100000@narcissus.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970418150347.00b0b604@etinc.com>
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On Fri, 18 Apr 1997, dennis wrote: > At 09:57 AM 4/18/97 -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > >> Uhh, yeah. You want stability, then you can't have 'brand-new' > >> features. You can't have it both ways. > >> > >> To put it into a scenario you might understand. > >> > >> : I want to beta-test your newest product before it's released > >> : publically, but it better be *rock* solid since I need your latest > >> : driver to handle the huge network loads I'm using. And, I'll complain > >> : if it makes my machine unstable. > > > >That looks like what he actually wants, as opposed to what he says > >he thinks he wants. > > > >Why can't the latest driver work in a rock solid system, or why > >can't a rock solid driver work in the latest system? A beta user > >accepts some risk, but they shouldn't have to risk everything. > > > > No..its more like..why can't the new features be smoothly integrated into the > existing release product without having to create an entirely new animal. > > db Good idea. In fact, why even have seperate releases? Let's just backport everything to 1.0, and anytime we add something, we'll just remake the entire distribution, so we don't have to worry about new numbers??... What do you think a new version's for, anyway?? Think we release new versions for our health? No, a new version comes out because there are new features. That's why DOS 6.0 came out; MS added an antivirus, a defrag program, a compression program, etc. to 5.0, plus other stuff. They created a new version (gasp!!) just because they had new features. How dare they... See Terry? Someone else is getting a 'shaddup'. Isn't there a list called ' wannit_rightnow@freebsd.org' for this? *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* |FreeBSD is good. FreeBSD is our friend. UNIX is our god.| *Micro$oft is bad. Micro$oft causes problems.* |MicroBSD??? I DON'T THINK SO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!| |"I hate quotes in signature files" :-} MAtthew Fuller| *fullermd@narcissus.ml.org FreeBSD junkie* |http://keystone.westminster.edu/~fullermd Westminster College| *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
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