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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD support [was Re: God Damn partition crap!]
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 13:37:52 -0700
Organization: Me
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Michael Curry wrote:
]
] Terry Lambert (terry@lambert.org) wrote:
]
] : Fine; so do I... like working on a real fix: one that
] : doesn't require me educating you (because you refuse to
] : look where I point) in order for you to add a disk.
]
] An encyclopedia may contain a lot of information, but it
] works better when it's organized into some defined and
] recognized order -- alphabetic being only one.
Feel free to offer your (apparently superior to mine) skills
in solving this perceived problem.
] I disagree with your point of view -- as I interpret your
] expression of it; you are certainly welcome to it. Good luck
] with the "real fix", but I feel that Microsoft is already way
] out in front in the category of "fixes that do not require
] educating the consumer."
Gee, I wonder if this has anything to do with their "contributors"
being paid to work on things which are not fun to work on,
while FreeBSD contributors, being "paid" in the coin of fun,
work only on things they enjoy working on?
If you enjoy working on stopgaps and/or documenting them,
feel free to enjoy yourself that way. Personally, I will
spend my leisure time working on technically apt soloutions
without expediency compromises (which is what I enjoy doing,
since "real-world" work requires expediency compromises).
Soloutions, one of which will eventually render the stopgaps
and stopgap documentation irrelevant.
Regards,
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.