* Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010314 09:21] wrote:
> At 12:09 PM 03/14/2001, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> >* Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010314 08:14] wrote:
> > >
> > > A better strategy would be to welcome ALL vendors AND binary distributions
> > > (who may release source under NDA if they chose) so that the best products
> > > could be available for FreeBSD without the adversity of the
> > > "geek-revolution" that you propose.
> >
> >I don't know about that:
> >
> >how many times does windows crash because of poorly written drivers
> >rather than flaws in the core OS? (*)
>
>
> Im not sure of what the difference is. There are many poorly written
> drivers in FreeBSD and linux also. The fact that you have source may be
> soothing, but it doesnt help the 99% of people that cant fix it themselves.
At least we can point at the driver and call it a honking bunch of
poo rather than allowing the blame to hit the core OS.
Honestly, I'd love to see vendors able to work out shipping drivers
for FreeBSD, even in binary form, it would make users happy. I
would just be pretty hard pressed to use them though. :)
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