Re: [webmin-l] openldap module that supports FreeBSD

[Steve W. <st...@he...>]

Suspect exclaimed:

>me. simply for the fact that if you develop a module for the public in the
>first place, develop it FOR the public. (meaning make sure you at least
>support the big 3 (Solaris/BSD/Linux))
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It's my take that many, many "Free Software" developers are releasing 
software that they wrote for a very practical reason (i.e., to use 
themselves - Jamie? Is that where webmin originally came from?), in 
hopes that it might help someone else with the same set of problems. I 
think it's really very difficult to make a case for some ephemeral 
responsibility to "the public".  While people who go all-out (Like 
Jamie) deserve kudos, criticizing someone else for not going that 
distance is like kicking the guy handing you a fiver because the guy up 
the street gave you a twenty.

But, In the end, I bet if you sent the author a Sparc machine, he'd 
consider hacking it up for Solaris; the same thing probably applies to a 
BSD box.

J. Steve

>
>Today jo...@sw... mumbled incessantly:
>** Suspect wrote:
>** >Failed to install module from
>** >http://gaia.anet.fr/webmin/openldap/releases/openldap2-0_1.wbm :
>** >Module openldap2 does not support this operating system (FreeBSD 4.8) 
>** >
>** >=[
>** >
>** >who would develop a webmin module and not support FreeBSD?
>** >
>** >*sigh*
>** 
>** Who would complain in a public forum about a module that someone went to 
>** the trouble to write and give away for free?
>** 
>** *sigh*
>** -- 
>** Joe Cooper <jo...@sw...>
>** Web caching appliances and support.
>** http://www.swelltech.com
>** 
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