At 12:50 PM -0700 10/17/01, Jordan Hubbard wrote: >I fully support your idea of offering a "bounty" to anyone writing >drivers for your cards and think you're being more than generous in >offering it. I wish more vendors would do that and I'm sorry that >this discussion has gotten as polarized as it has. If people want >to change the support situation for T1 cards, they need to get off >their duffs and write the code - as a vendor, you're doing all that >might be expected and more to facilitate the process. I hope the >zealots in the audience realize that too.
The freebsd project is really just a bunch of users who happen to use and work on freebsd. The group of users is such that we'll always PREFER a completely open-source BSD-licensed driver to other alternatives. However, it is also true that the vast majority of those users will prefer having a driver to NOT having a driver! :-) I think that offering some sort of bounty to have a freebsd developer work on drivers for your cards, under NDA, is a generous offer. I'm not the kind of person who writes drivers, but I certainly hope that someone takes you up on the offer. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Systems Programmer or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
