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From: lkoeller@odie.physik2.uni-rostock.de (Lars Koeller)
Subject: Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD ...
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Date: 23 May 96 12:55:23 GMT
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In article <4o13i3$tp@news.siemens.at>,
mingo@pc5829.hil.siemens.co.at (Ingo Molnar) writes:
>Terry Lambert (terry@lambert.org) wrote:
>
>[ should buggy (non-working) hardware be supported ]
>
>: Hack drivers will not render bad hardware good. Bad hardware
>: is bad, independent of whether or not there are hack drivers
>: for it.
>:
>: Making bad hardware run does not ennoble hack drivers. Hack
>: drivers are bad, independent of whether or not they cause bad
>: hardware to function.
>
[ ... snip ...]
>but device drivers come and go ... and people >depend< on drivers,
>and they only see: "FreeBSD doesnt work with my CDROM" or "Linux
>doesnt work with my drive".
Yes, and thinking in this way is the reason LINUX never become as
stable as FreeBSD and never reaches such a good code quality. Linux is a
HACKER OS.
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