In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dennis writes:
>Again, you miss the point. Spending dollars advertising is arguably a more
>valuable contribution than altering a few line of code or submitting a
>driver for some obscure card.
It depends a lot on the goals of the project. FreeBSD has pretty good name
recognition already, in the markets it's after.
>>Sure. And without FreeBSD, your "contributions" are worthless, so
>>you already got your share.
>That makes no sense. How can you "contribute" to something that doesnt
>exist?
But FreeBSD *does* exist.
>The existence of FreeBSD is a necessary condition to make a
>contribution to it.
Yup. But everything you sell that uses FreeBSD, you couldn't have sold
without it. That's your fair share.
>>Sure, but at the moment it enters the system, we are supposed to
>>support, test and let it evoluate with the system. How to do that
>>without source?
>Wrong again. WE support it.
Once it enters the system, people will send questions to mailing lists about
it, and that turns into work for all the maintainers.
>Windows has the driver for the intel ethernet card on their CD, but they
>dont support it.
Yes, but they also come with a 32-bit protected memory system, and they don't
support that either - just try to get a response to a bug report.
-s
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