"Jonathan M. Bresler" says: > BUGGER the vendors. what with FreeBSD, linux, NetBSD, 4.4BSD > Lite and the rest of source code available UNIX operating systems. get > the source. read the source. use the source. after all its ours now! > the owner-de-jour of the code has declared 4.4BSD Lite free of taint. [...] > anyone want to create drop in replacement packages for sun, sgi > and the rest of the hardware vendors? Try fixing a kernel bug with non-vendor sources. Hell, try fixing most problems with non-vendor sources. Furthermore, my clients pay lots of money for software support so that they don't have to fix the problems themselves. Frankly, I think you are absolutely and completely wrong on this. .pm