Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 09:41:30 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Kris Kirby <kris@catonic.net>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org, netbsd-advocacy@NetBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why did NetBSD and FreeBSD diverge? Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20010119093437.0490ca10@localhost> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010119083014.jhb@FreeBSD.org> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010119091720.048087b0@localhost>
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At 09:30 AM 1/19/2001, John Baldwin wrote: >You missed my point that this isn't FreeBSD specific however. No, I didn't; that's why I drew the analogy to a fraternity! >People are >inherently selfish and are always going to act in a manner that serves their >self interest. The fact that people will thus be drawn towards people with >similar views, etc. should not come as a surprise. As has also been noted in >this thread, not everyone has the same exact views, but different people react >differently to differing views. The fact is that you appear at least to be >rather stubborn in your views, which is not necessarily a bad thing. Persistence is often an important virtue. If I didn't think I could contribute something to FreeBSD in particular and the BSDs in general despite the social problems, I'd be long gone! As it is, I got the BSDs a track at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference (which reminds me: they just issued their call for papers -- submit things now!) and have published many papers and articles that have drawn attention to the BSDs and their business-friendly approach to licensing. [SNIP] >Also, you missed that I countered that there isn't "hazing" as it were. To say >that the fact that people are given commit bits because they work on stuff that >is stored in the repository is akin to saying that a company "hazes" because it >doesn't hire music majors for engineering jobs. Such a claim would be >ludicrous. That's not the sort of "hazing" I'm talking about. What I *am* talking about is the constant stream of defamatory comments hurled, via the mailing lists, at those who think outside the box. And not just at me; I've seen Terry and a few others take a lot of heat as well. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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