On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 18:25 -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > > athony atkielski =~ /tm452\d/ ? > > I was beginning to suspect some such. > Maybe worse. > > ////jerry > Jerry and Eric
If I can remember correctly, I have received help from both of you on some of my previous posts. I thank you and I always enjoy reading your view points. This post is no exception but I happen to find Anthony's views on this subject both provocative and right on the money. We have all run into a problem with a printer, NIC, scanner that is "not supported" by FreeBSD because the vendor will not release the drivers or code needed to build a driver. The vendor could care less if our mascot is a daemon or Mount Fujiyama. The vendor looks at the bottom line. How much engineer/programmer time will it take and can I recover the investment. The vendor looks at the number of installed systems and the competition for his product and makes a _business_ decision. Anthony's point, and I agree, is that everything will grow when our OS is taken for its strengths. It is difficult to get to the point of our strengths when the Suits see a representation of what they perceive as; childish or anti-christ or cartoonish whether justified or not. First impressions are important. Robert P.S. I like beastie... but I like the OS much better! _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
