On Tuesday 04 September 2001 09:24 pm, D. J. Bernstein wrote:
> d neal wise writes:
> > Anyone else buying into /package?
>
> Of course. It eliminates problems that are horribly familiar to every
> experienced sysadmin, even if not to some clueless OS distributors.
>
> > I don't know about anyone else but I think symlinks in / suck.
>
> More rhetoric not backed by any engineering sense. Why am I supposed
> to believe that symlinks in / cause any problems for users?
>
> I've heard users complain that Solaris is expensive. I've heard users
> complain that Solaris doesn't come with a compiler. I've never heard
> a user say ``I think Solaris sucks because it has symlinks in /.''
>
> > So everytime it's referenced it has to be followed. yick.
>
> ``Yick''? Is that supposed to mean ``My measurements have shown that
> this makes a 0.0001% difference in system performance, and, damn it,
> I think that's important''?
>
> ---Dan

If your users are complaining about $45 for Solaris 8 - Intel ( 12 CDs
of software ) being expensive or a free download being expensive then
you seem to have some pretty cheap users. Free == expensive ?

And Solaris doesn't seem to have a symlink to /package in its root
directory either. There is one for /bin and one for /lib, but not for
/package.

Why don't you just give it up? You have the right to license your
software any way you see fit and the OpenBSD team has the equal right
and duty to exclude software which they cannot legally distribute.
With respect to Netscape in the past, that IS the past. Your concerns
are for the present and your license is unacceptable.

Either change the license or GO AWAY.

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