> Given that it took me 3 month to have Jack Vogel (then maintainer of the driver) acknowledge there was an uninitialized variable bug in the e1000(4) driver, l

> Given that it took me 3 month to have Jack Vogel (then maintainer of the driver) acknowledge there was an uninitialized variable bug in the e1000(4) driver, leading to countless user frustration, despite detailed technical analysis and patch. Let me openly challenge this assertion... The issue ended up being fixed (or actually, buried in a huge patch) without attribution [ed. of course!]. Without seeing the actual conversations, I'm willing to give the guy the benefit of the doubt on this. 3 months isn't too bad of a turn around time, and I'm sure the guys maintaining FreeBSD are busy, so maybe not able to reply to everybody about every little thing. Did you bring up the attribution on the mailing list or anything? Was it just a mistake? Was it a trivial change that could have been made as part of something else? > I've worked for 5 years in a [small] company using FreeBSD as the main development platform, heavily hacking the TCP and network stack. We leached plenty, and didn't contribute a single line back ! Is that really something to brag about? But whatever, you get to use it that way if you want to. Still doesn't change the fact that a lot of companies do contribute back.