Thank you all, for all the help/advice. If that is what has offended people, i didn't mean the developers were not capable of writing a usb driver. I respect them and know that what they do requres an extremely clever mind (I can program a bit in C but nothing like the developers so i can appreciate what they do) intelligent people, they are very smart and could easily write a driver for a usb port considering the fact that they're capable of writing kernels and TCP/IP stacks. What i meant and didn't properly explain what was in my head was a reference to an earlier email i sent asking if developers of other OS's can get hold of ATI's secrets how come OpenBSD developers are not privy to the same information - and i wasn't critisizing them. I only wanted to find out why, or more like, how did the others get hold of ATI's specs.
Once again, i apologise and i didn't mean to offend anyone. I will think twice before writing in future. I see OpenBSD as a gift and it is lovely that they devote so much of their own time to develop this wonderful system. That's why I'Ve bought CDs and books - because at first i used to ftp it free of charge but once i fell in love wth it, i wanted to give something back to show my appreciation. Anyway, for what it's worth, I apologise again. Regards, Soph On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 15:56 +0200, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > Sophie, some advice/general remarks: > > - Don't take it too personally. Theo is projecting his anger towards some > people in general towards you. > > - Try to see the general problem from our viewpoint. We create OpenBSD > with lots of hard work. Most of us do it in our spare time. You and > other people get OpenBSD as a gift. Of course we ask money for CDs and > other stuff, but the amounts involved do not compare at all to the > amount of effort involved. Now it is rude to ask for more or > different things after you have received a gift. > > - I do not know why there's a driver problem with your USB, but to > say that it has something to do with incompetence (as you suggest > since you are saying that system XXX has a driver) is also rude. Maybe > you did not intend to say that, but it sure read like that. > > - There are probably good reasons we do not want to spend effort on > this. One might be that we do not want to support vendors that do not > provide documentation. For quality work, we need documentation. The > fact that other hardware from the same vendor might work is > irrelevant. That piece of hardware might be compatible with some > hardware which does have documentation. > > - In the meantime, try to find another solution to your problem. Maybe > you can find another laptop, run OpenBSD on another machine, swap > machines with a friend, whatever. > > -Otto
