>dev wrote: >> It would be a waste of effort to look at anything previous to a >> Sun Fire V890 or any UltraSPARC IV based server. There are very >> few out there running Solaris any more and only hobby types have >> SPARC anywhere else. >The first thing you forget is the fun factor. People devote time in >open-source also because of fun and other "profit" from it. If >everything was for profit, a lot wouldn't exist. >Otherwise just use Windows or RedHat on intel... and suffer with their bugs! > >You might find fun in driving your 1976 car and even learn how to steer, >how to drive without traction control. Perhaps you won't use it for >daily commuting, but to go to the lake in the weekends? > >Also, we are not speaking here of Solaris, but on OpenBSD. It can run on >slower stuff even. > >Last point, I develop (= code) open source software since many years. >Not only I take pride that it runs on lesser known architectures and >operating systems, but doing so helped me find so many bugs that make my >software more robust and reliable than the average program coded for >"Linux and x86". >Buffer overflows, uninitialized variables.. especially structure members >are very sensitive on SPARC. > >My stuff is more desktop oriented, so perhaps of less use for some >people here, but still ! > >Right below my SS20 there is a Fire, so don't worry, I'm working to get >my stuff working on Solaris and UltraSPARC too. If it runs on both, it >is a gain for the free software world.
Sorry Riccardo, but Dennis is a businessman. He does not care if you love doing this. He would prefer that you work on what HE NEEDS. If you want to find out more, you can reach him at: Admin Name: CLARKE, DENNIS Admin Organization: Corvidae Code Inc. Admin Street: 153 Chatham Street Admin City: Brantford Admin State/Province: ON Admin Postal Code: N3S 4G5 Admin Country: CA Admin Phone: +1.5197717761 Not that you need to reach out to him. People like him are very common. You could walk down the street and find a person with his simplistic attitude. They simply don't believe that good things are built by people who love building good things. After all, they are people of business. They will never understand the magic that creates the effects that have paid for their houses. They think it is all build on modern foundations, and that building on the stones of the past provides no benefit. Future, ho. The past is just rubble, right. But do say hi if you call him. Again, I think there is no point in bothering. He is common. You can find people with his simplistic attitude be stepping outside. (Except those people on your street rarely arrive on a mailing list and preach that people should stop loving what they love). Of course I have far more reactionary private mails from him exposing his character. The waste of my time stops here, so should the waste of your time -- work on the wonderful things you want to. We never know the fruits until we try.
