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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!newsfeed.ksu.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!EU.net!Austria.EU.net!siemens.at!not-for-mail From: mingo@pc5829.hil.siemens.co.at (Ingo Molnar) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD ... Date: 14 May 1996 12:27:06 GMT Organization: Siemens AG Austria Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4n9u6q$ien@news.siemens.at> References: <3188C1E2.45AE@onramp.net> <318FD68B.60AD12F6@lambert.org> <4mouan$cpb@agate.berkeley.edu> <4mpch5$97t@ennui.ops.best.com> <4mplph$n1s@agate.berkeley.edu> <319165C5.58D1E2F7@lambert.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: pc5829.hil.siemens-austria X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 BETA-950824-color PL0] Terry Lambert (terry@lambert.org) wrote: : But if no one returns the hardware, how will the vendor of the : hardware ever be punished for producing crappy hardware so as : to disincent them from making their next hardware crappy as well? you can "punish" vendors if you have market share. But nor FreeBSD, nor Linux has real market share. So both have to "go with the tide", supporting broken hardware, fight against NDAs and implementing bad APIs, to balance the missing market share. no, no. Linux/FreeBSD doesnt need "success", in the economical sense. It needs "beta testers", and beta testers have bad CDROMs :) "Any working code is inherently better than any non working code", hmmm, who wrote this? :) -- mingo