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Re: [ts-7000] Re: BusyBorks

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Subject: Re: [ts-7000] Re: BusyBorks
From: Jason Stahls <>
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:34:29 -0400
> Well I dont doubt that you are right. But there's a difference 
> between software support and a defective product.
>
> It should work. If I need support in modifying that's a different 
> issue. Luckily there is this group that does the support for their 
> defective distro.
>
> If I had realised the ammount of extra work required, I probably 
> would not have got into TS boards.  
>
> Having said that the h'w seem solid and well designed. It's a shame 
> they don't clean up the loose ends on the s'w and save everyone 
> having to reinvent that particular wheel.
>
> Thanks for you thought, and help.

Have you ever dealt with Wind River (vxWorks) or QNX?  If you don't have 
a $2000+/year support contract you don't even get updates to your 
software.  That means if something is broken in a release that you 
purchase without the support contract you're out of luck.  This is also 
true for other software like CCS's PIC-C compiler.

There are always bugs, and in this case thanks to open source software 
TS chooses not to focus on a problem they know most of us can solve on 
our own.  Instead they choose to focus on building cooler and faster 
hardware for us to run our open source software on.

Question for TS, if one of us built a new tarball with some bug fixes, 
would TS use it?

Jason

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