[3292] in linux-net channel archive
Re: Bug in 1.2.13 firewall?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark F. Burgo)
Tue Jun 18 11:48:07 1996
In-Reply-To: <96Jun15.021428+0100met_dst.13987-224+52@lupinella.troll.no>
Reply-To: mfburgo@lrkimball.com
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 08:00:56 EDT
From: "Mark F. Burgo" <mfburgo@lrkimball.com>
To: Arnt Gulbrandsen <agulbra@troll.no>
Cc: dennis@etinc.com, sjackson@statsrus.com, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
On 15-Jun-96 Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote:
>%f>>%f>dennis@etinc.com (Dennis)
>%f>> I was joking, but the point is that your ridiculing of commercial products
>%f>> is keeping vendors from supporting LINUX, which hurts the entire
>%f>> user population. The statement that LINUX should prohibit the use of
>%f>> binary-only distributions is totally absurd. Equally absurd is the thought
>%f>> that some dude in the Urals can support a product better than the
>%f>> manufacturer.
>%f>
>%f>Of the messages I've seen in this thread, nobody has criticized
>%f>commercial linux support. Several messages have been critical of
>%f>binary-only drivers, which is a different thing entirely.
>%f>
>%f>--Arnt
I feel that it is a shame to get so upset about all of this. We are a group of
people
that are all working toward a better OS with decent vendor support. Since Linux
does
have a volitile development schedule it is hard for a vendor to keep his source
up to date.
One thing everyone has forgot here is that some people are in this business to m
ake a living,
and not to support all operating systems. However, Perhaps if we asked for some
one to give
interium updates on development kernels they would. Has anyone thought to ask p
olitely for
this or are we all to caught up in the FREE option to believe the saying "Ask an
d you shall
receive".
Please don't jump the vendors that are willing to work with us or we wont have a
ny later on.
---Mark
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E-Mail: mfburgo@lrkimball.com
Date: 06/18/96
Time: 08:00:56
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