On Saturday, March 19, Scott Long wrote:
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> I can't see how the All Or Nothing attitude here is productive. Good,
> 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, pissing him off really won't produce results.
Because after 4 months of trying, we are at our wit's end. If you like,
you could pay me for the time it will take me to be nice to adaptec,
not get our users involved, and still be able to pay the mortgage.
> Why is it so important to drag your users into your political fights
> by depriving them of stuff that works now but isn't exactly everything
> that you want? I'd love to have fully open stuff from all the RAID
> companies too, but I also want the users of FreeBSD to be able to use
> the resources that are out there to their full advantage and not be
> pinned down by my political beliefs on the subject.
In other words, you want them to use crap (something you know about),
rather than quality? Sure, why not.
--Toby.
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