Re: Adaptec AAC raid support

2005-03-19 Thread Bob Beck
> > ...deliberately breaking OpenBSD's support for Adaptec hardware as some > sort of ultimatum is a childish and self-destructive action. I hope > the other OpenBSD committers veto any such action as being > counterproductive and harmful to your users. Horsecookies. What was done was

Re: Adaptec AAC raid support

2005-03-19 Thread Bob Beck
> you guys want to produce fully open and unencumbered stuff. That's > wonderful. But why is it so important to go around screaming and > yelling about it and alientating those who do try to help? Let me > tell you, Doug is about the most positive and supportive guy you'll > ever have at Adaptec

Re: Adaptec AAC raid support

2005-03-19 Thread Bob Beck
> Sorry, I got suckered into a side argument about why the kernel driver > in OpenBSD sucks. Yes, the management app is closed, but the driver is > open. And if the OpenBSD driver sucks and people want it to stop > crashing and don't want to go beating their heads against the wall at > Adaptec a

Re: aac support

2005-03-19 Thread Bob Beck
> Of course, sooner or later someone will kindly point them in the > direction of electronic documentation, in which case I'm sure they'll > come up with the "oops, our Acrobat licence expired"-excuse. Your flippant reply, doesn't illustrate the source of the real problem. Companies in

Re: Adaptec AAC raid support

2005-03-19 Thread Bob Beck
> I'm not stuffing anything down anyone's throats. I'm enabling FreeBSD > users to use the resources that are available to them. That's quite > different than cancelling developer work and threatening to remove a > driver due to a political dispute. Freedom isn't about coercing others > to be

Re: wikipedia article

2006-06-12 Thread Bob Beck
* Constantine A. Murenin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-12 15:07]: > On 11/06/06, Hamorszky Balazs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I'm looking for some help on an article on wikipedia. > >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_open_source_operating_systems > > Whilst there, what about another im