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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: The Future of FreeBSD...
Date: 27 Jul 1995 09:44:35 +0200
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Jon Jenkins <jenkinsj@ozy.dec.com> wrote:
>I know the feeling. I cannot add anything to the kernel because
>of my role at DEC and having potentially "inside" or "confidential"
>knowledge of the workings of OSF/1 and ULTRIX prevents me
>from contributing to anything related to the kernel.
Interesting. Matt Thomas doesn't seem to have this kind of troubles,
he's been contributing the 100 MBit ethernet and FDDI drivers, and
he's also a DEC employee.
>I think this decision was based on the belief that
...
>3: There is nothing in the UNIX world that even comes
> close to the likes of MC++, BC++ and Delphi is somethinig else.
> This makes development easy, cheap and fast.
OTOH, the problems related with an unprotected operating system do
make development on those systems a nightmare, expensive and slow. As
a formerly rather happy Borland user, i wouldn't really like to change
back from Emacs/gcc/gdb (sort-of Integrated Development Environment
for me) now. Just the fact that a single error writing some garbage
around a NULL pointer will cause my system to hang without any chance
for a post-mortem analyzation would make me sick of using them these
days, now that i know of SIGSEGV's and core dumps.
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)