Re: Net driver update for S900 required

[Yoshinori K. Okuji]

On Tuesday 14 October 2003 03:58, Mark Pavlichuk wrote:
>   My understanding now is that Hans-Peter Jansen was going to take on
> the difficult job of synching the modern etherboot drivers with grub...
> Doesn't seem he has posted to this or the etherboot list for a while
> (since August?).  Ken Yap (one of the etherboot head men) doesn't seem
> to appreciate the grub sourcecode aesthetics or overall design
> philosophy and wasn't excited about helping, and the grub people (the
> few, the proud, the insane?) weren't particularly enthusiastic about the
> task themselves.

After all, your problem is yours, not but any other's. Everybody acts as 
his/her own priority. If he/she is interested in solving your problem, he/she 
will do. Otherwise, he/she won't. That's the so-called freedom.

About your problem, I'm more or less interested in fixing it, because I want 
to make GRUB better, but not because I want to support you personally. So I 
appreciate if you fix it and send a patch to us, but I don't want to make any 
attempt to fix it myself. My time is limited and I have many others things to 
do.

Sometimes people ask, "I did blah blah, and it didn't work. Why?" But I want 
to say, "Who knows?" If you did something, you are the only one who can 
investigate what happens, unless you give us every piece of information.

This is my advise: If you think you can work more on your problem, please go 
ahead. We can support you, as far as your questions are what we know already. 
Otherwise, please find someone else willing to work on your problem. If you 
are quite lucky, you can find such a person without money. But it is normally 
easier to find a talented person, if you pay money to the person. Generally 
speaking, support is not free in the sense of "free beer".

Okuji