From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932227AbWAJQ3V (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jan 2006 11:29:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932238AbWAJQ3U (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jan 2006 11:29:20 -0500 Received: from xenotime.net ([66.160.160.81]:34750 "HELO xenotime.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S932227AbWAJQ3U (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jan 2006 11:29:20 -0500 Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 08:29:18 -0800 (PST) From: "Randy.Dunlap" X-X-Sender: rddunlap@shark.he.net To: Helge Hafting cc: Yaroslav Rastrigin , CaT , Alistair John Strachan , andersen@codepoet.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Why the DOS has many ntfs read and write driver,but the linux can't for a long time In-Reply-To: <43C3B6A8.5030905@aitel.hist.no> Message-ID: References: <174467f50601082354y7ca871c7k@mail.gmail.com> <200601091403.46304.yarick@it-territory.ru> <20060109124545.GA2035@zip.com.au> <200601091634.52107.yarick@it-territory.ru> <43C3B6A8.5030905@aitel.hist.no> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Helge Hafting wrote: > Yaroslav Rastrigin wrote: > > >Ahhh. Sweet dream - to be able to offer money to fix extremely annoying bugs or to add missing features. > >Unfortunately, bounties doesn't work :-/ > > > > > Depends on how much money you have to offer. If you have the resources > to hire > a programmer full-time until your favourite problem is solved - no > problem I think. Well, some docs would usually be very helpful. Reverse engineering is usually too slow IMO. > If funding development alone is a bit much, consider starting with one > particular problem and try collecting money from other interested > people. > > Money can surely get the work done - but then you usually have to pay > enough that the programmer can make a living while working for you. > The cheap alternative is enthusiasts who will write a hardware driver if > they get > the hw for free. -- ~Randy