> >Afaik, anybody can spend any amount of advertising dollars he
> >wants.
>
> 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.
Well, I don't think so. Good quality and many drivers are very
important for an OS. (think about e.g. win95 vs NT)
Where money is, there are 3rd party vendors. Wave a networking
budget, and ten jump in your neck.
> > > Thousands of users use FreeBSD enhanced with our "contributions". We
> > spend
> > > tens of thousands of dollars advertising them, indirectly advertising
> > > FreeBSD in the process.
> >
> >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?
You mean it is a Schrodingers cat problem? :-)
It is a simple dependancy thought experiment: A depends on B.
There is only 50% chance that B exists, and you can't determine if
B exists exactly.
What is the status of A ...
> The existence of FreeBSD is a necessary condition to make a
> contribution to it.
Yes, but without it existance this would be academical.
> > > People buy products because they think that they are worth the price. The
> > > fact that so many people are willing to pay for the enhancements we
> > provide
> > > is prima facia evidence of our contribution.
> >
> >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.
Then YOU distribute it.
> Windows has the driver for the intel ethernet card on their CD, but they
> dont support it. At least TRY to grasp some concepts here, you might learn
> something.
That is why you have to click sixteen licenses to install something.
Not worth the hassle IMHO.
> Im trying to give analogies that even you can understand, but its very
> difficult :-)
Stop being so childish.
Yes, you can do it perfect, but than you have a reviewing board that
does QA for packages, and allow some to be distributed and some
not.
FreeBSD can't afford that, and it would be undemocratic, unclear
anyway
So that is why the policy is no binary distribution parts, probably.
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