Date: 12 Mar 2000 13:01:07 +0100 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: noslenj@swbell.net (Jay Nelson), freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The Merger, and what will its effects be on committers? Message-ID: <xzp8zzoieik.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Terry Lambert's message of "Sat, 11 Mar 2000 00:21:56 %2B0000 (GMT)" References: <200003110021.RAA15362@usr08.primenet.com>
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Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> writes: > To get a taste of this, you should consider the situation that > occurred when Matt Dillon sold Best Internet off, and was able > o spend 8 hours a day hacking new code, and how a volunteer > core was not able to keep up with reviewing it at the rate he > was able to produce it. They throttled it back by removing, > and then conditionalizing, his commit priviledges, something > that wouldn't really work with several core members backing a > commit. You know that's crap, Terry. Don't go there. You'll only start off a new flamewar. > Finally, there's some concern about proprietary drivers not > being available for the free version, and displacing freely > available drivers in the free version, leaving no free > alternatives. Judging from what currently publicly known, the only "proprietary drivers" not "available for the free version" will be those written under NDA, i.e. those drivers for which there is no free equivalent in the first place. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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