Subject: Re: The future of NetBSD
To: Gilles Chehade <veins@evilkittens.org>
From: Marc G. Fournier <scrappy@freebsd.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 08/31/2006 22:16:08
On Thu, 1 Jan 1970, Gilles Chehade wrote:

> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>> On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Gilles Chehade wrote:
>> 
>>> mmmh ... you've got a point ... you just opened my eyes ... documentation 
>>> is pointless when I have a blackbox doing the work.
>> 
>> Maybe I'm missing something, and if so, I do apologize to those on these 
>> lists that I may have offended ... but ... having clean source code to a 
>> driver is not equal to a black box ... is it?  I don't believe I've once 
>> advocatged 'binary drivers' ...

> a blackbox is not necessarily a binary driver, based on source code 
> filled with magic values you know nothing about, would you be able to 
> fix a bug ?

'k, put that way, I retract my original statement and apologize to those 
that I obviously offended ... I wasn't thinking it through, and can 
understand that adversion that those on these lists had to my comments :(