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Date:      Thu, 29 Apr 1999 21:10:04 -0700
From:      "Rudy Gireyev" <rgireyev@cnmnetwork.com>
To:        Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net>
Cc:        J_Shevland@TurnAround.com.au, java@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Can I help with the JDK2 port?
Message-ID:  <19990430041201.CC21814DFF@hub.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9904292142510.378-100000@picnic.mat.net>
References:  <99Apr28.174919pdt.26883@bohica.con.securecomputing.com>

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Somebody forgot to take their medication again!
This can't be good.

Rudy

On 29 Apr 99, at 21:49, Chuck Robey wrote:

> On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Richard Levenberg wrote:
> 
> > Joe,
> > 
> > I appreciated your comments and was surprised at Nate William's reply. I
> > gave him the benefit of the doubt and assumed that I had missed
> > something on the website (http://www.freebsd.org/java). I went back to
> > look for something like an anonymous CVS, or something that I could just
> > look at and decide for myself whether I was capable and had the time. I
> > still havent found anything. 
> 
> You guys are offering to do something that is not needed, and are
> complaining because, when you offer to do 1% of the work, everyone
> doesn't shower you with roses.
> 
> The porting's a lot of REAL work, and the guys who know how to do it are
> all currently kinda tied up.  It's not here now, and taking pot shots at
> Nate, who actually HAS provided code, comes ill from a bunch of folks who
> haven't provided anything at all.
> 
> You haven't even bothered to check out the Sun web site, and if you deny
> it, then how come you didn't know about Sun making the source code
> available?  It's on their web site, they didn't hide it.  You want the
> code, go get it.
> 
> I get a little hot at folks getting shirty about not treating their
> offers as if they were real work.  Read this list a little, and you'll see
> offers come all the time, but real work doesn't.  If you want folks to
> take you seriously, don't offer things, show stuff you've already done. 
> God knows there's enough things to do.
> 
> Good intentions are not good deeds.
> 
> 
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