From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Oct 4 12:15:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B60F737B66D; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 12:15:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from kris@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) id MAA75533; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 12:15:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 12:15:23 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: John Howie Cc: Kris Kennaway , Poul-Henning Kamp , James Wyatt , Brett Glass , "Chris D . Faulhaber" , chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ftpd bug in FreeBSD through at least 3.4 Message-ID: <20001004121523.B73561@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <23683.970516562@critter> <038b01c02cb2$1b5092c0$fd01a8c0@pacbell.net> <20001003163347.A56064@freefall.freebsd.org> <051201c02e1c$f57a2a40$fd01a8c0@pacbell.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <051201c02e1c$f57a2a40$fd01a8c0@pacbell.net>; from JHowie@msn.com on Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 09:05:44AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 09:05:44AM -0700, John Howie wrote: > Your response is so indicative of the many reasons why so many people do not > volunteer to help out on FreeBSD or any other open-source project. The 'we' > I refer to is the community, of course. However, in FreeBSD the community > seems to be who a few self-designated despots say who its members are, all > others are considered free-loaders and trouble makers. The members of the community most useful to the project are those who do work (of whatever kind) to support the project. In this case, helping to support 3.x releases yourself, if you think we should be, counts volumes more than asking others to do so. By all means, contribute away! Kris -- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message