Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 11:53:27 +0200 (MET DST) From: Christoph Haas <haas@willi.lion.de> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: Christoph Haas <chris@acme1.ruhr.de>, dennis@etinc.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, haas@lion.de Subject: Re: Commercial vendors registry Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.970415115005.3832B-100000@willi> In-Reply-To: <199704142034.NAA19260@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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On Mon, 14 Apr 1997, Terry Lambert wrote: > > I really think that our view of FreeBSD is too technical. We should start > > to care about what people are doing with it, not only thinking of what > > features to add next. > > > A big part of this is, IMO, taking care to not break things unnecessarily, > either by not exposing the internals of things we intend to change, or > not changing the things for which we have exposed internals. Agreed, but isn't most of FreeBSD "exposed internals" ? Whoever wants to can read in the sources looking at how things are implemented. And if he relies on those internals instead of defined interfaces to certain services, he can be sure that his code breaks next time someone commits a change to these internals. Christoph -- Christoph Haas o.tel.o GmbH | Never trust an operating UNIX Sysadmin Universitaetsstrasse 140| system you don't have the 44799 Bochum / Germany | sources for. mailto:haas@lion.de http://www.o-tel-o.de | http://www.freebsd.org
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