[haiku-development] Re: What's the status of Haiku?
- From: "Earl Pottinger" <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (Redacted sender "earl_colby_pottinger@xxxxxxxxx" for DMARC)
- To: "haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 07:08:38 -0700
Honestly, I find there is something wrong with a person complaining that his
driver does not work when they have not even spent the time to report what
hardware they have so others can fix it. Lots of hardware has been added just
by adding the hardware IDs to an already existing driver for that family of
hardware.
Depending on what NIC he has, the problem may have been fixable months/years
ago.
Also it does not even require programming experience to sometime patch the
driver. In the case of my Toshiba 305NB I was able to use Diskprobe to find
the ID table and change it to match my hardware. INSTANT NETWORKING.
Sorry, but in my personal opinion he complains too much, but does too little.
On Thursday, August 28, 2014 9:54:58 AM, Stephan Aßmus <superstippi@xxxxxx>
wrote:
Hi,
Am 28.08.2014 12:10, schrieb that way:
>> You expect someone to write the drivers and
>> web browsers for free for you.
>> And then you complain about the developers not
>> doing anything.
>> Seems unfair to me...
>
> i'm entitled to an opinion. it's an open source project asking for
> money. fair enough, if it's used to make the thing usable.
And whose definition of "usable" would it be? I think spending donation
money on getting individual pieces of hardware supported is very unwise
(unlike getting new device-classes supported).
Your network device might be supported by the next upgrade of the
drivers imported from FreeBSD - for free.
Donation money should be spend on goals that benefit the project as a
whole and the user-base in general.
Of course you are free to not donate, or maybe you want to initiate a
bounty for your hardware to which other people with the same hardware
could contribute. Haiku does not have the facilities in place for such
specific bounties. Other sites do or used to. But it didn't work out so
well. There are more examples of incompleted bounties, while the
approach of the Haiku donations seem to work out pretty well - based on
what has been accomplished with the money already.
Best regards,
-Stephan
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