* Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010314 08:14] wrote:
>
> A better strategy would be to welcome ALL vendors AND binary distributions
> (who may release source under NDA if they chose) so that the best products
> could be available for FreeBSD without the adversity of the
> "geek-revolution" that you propose.
I don't know about that:
how many times does windows crash because of poorly written drivers
rather than flaws in the core OS? (*)
how many hardware vendors say "sure dude, just buy _any_ disk and
stick it in my SAN box, we'll still support you!"
(*) win9x has a "feature" they expect thier driver coders to be
brain dead enough to exhaust the kernel stack (either that or
the driver arch demands this), they have a guard page on the
stack that catches overruns and performs a "fixup"
do a search on "MinSP" (maybe plural) to see what I mean.
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