From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jan 18 14:27:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 515C837B401 for ; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 14:27:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA27493; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 15:26:31 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010118152351.00cb89a0@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 15:26:13 -0700 To: Terry Lambert , opentrax@email.com From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Why did NetBSD and FreeBSD diverge? Cc: howardjp@well.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, netbsd-advocacy@NetBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <200101180626.XAA29452@usr08.primenet.com> References: <200101172339.PAA05269@spammie.svbug.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 11:26 PM 1/17/2001, Terry Lambert wrote: >As an aside: > >Actually, I view the whole thing as a useful applied sociology >experiment, from which much useful information derived. If I >had the academic credentials as a social scientist to be seriously >published in the field, or wasn't busy with other things to the >point of being unable to waste time acquiring them, I'd write >several papers on the topic. A lack of credentials -- or a lack of ethics -- hasn't stopped one Eric Raymond from writing papers on this topic, most of them self-serving propaganda. You SHOULD publish, Terry; you make a lot more sense than Eric and wouldn't simply be out to increase the value of your stock. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message