Travers Buda wrote: > > On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 21:10:13 -0700 > "Hank Cohen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Folks, > > There has been some discussion of late on this list about Hifn's > > policy with respect to releasing documentation to the general > > public. That discussion lead to a great deal of uninformed > > speculation and unflattering statement's about Hifn's unfriendliness > > towards the open source community. I would like to set the record > > straight. > etc... > > > Hank Cohen, > > You really ought to consider what _you_ want, which, I guess > is a job at hifn. That's made possible by selling hardware. Despite how > reasonable your process seems to be, de Raadt threatened to remove > hifn from the tree. Though unlikely, Theo may be wrong. But that should > be none of your concern. This is not about who is right. Your concern is > making your customers happy. > > Unhappy customers buy elsewhere. > Prospective customers who can't run your hardware buy elsewhere. > > I'd personally like to be able to select the best hardware around and > be able to run it too. I like selection. Make the best chips and > see they're supported--then you will be able to fire the > advertising department. > > Think of your money, Mr. Cohen. Think of mine. > > Travers Buda
That gets a bit close to why I lurk on misc@ (and I doubt that I'm alone). The people at OpenBSD understand hardware. They like to support hardware. (I've run OpenBSD because the Linux driver of a SCSI card couldn't work with the SCSI BIOS and I didn't want to boot from floppy). If something is giving OpenBSD trouble, regardless of why, I do not expect the trouble to stay confined to OpenBSD. If something, for whatever reason (including "unreasonable" whims), is giving OpenBSD trouble, watch for it to give trouble to Windows and Linux. ... somewhere, somehow ... (It's like water has this tendency to more or less move downhill) As to questionaires, as soon as something starts looking like spam-harvesting I'm outa there. (I am NOT "security-conscious", but I am also not THAT stupid.)
