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At 02:14 PM 3/9/99 -0700, Wes Peters wrote:
 
>Nor should it.  My point, as well as those of the others in this dicussion,
>is that the current scheme is NOT broken, it just is.

It's easy to say "it's not broken" until you attempt to bring in a port,
for a version of the OS that was released very recently, and find out
that it's an old version that has a security hole. A system that
doesn't make it easy to do what makes sense -- that is, to keep
the ports for recently released OS versions current -- is broken,
or at the very least has a real problem.

>I'm sure you are as
>tired as the rest of us of Brett's impassioned pleas to spoon-feed him
>everything he needs to run his business with no consideration given back.

Give me a break. The two most recent offers I've made to "give back"
have been rejected. One of these -- an offer to devote a bunch of time
to getting FreeBSD running on IBM Netfinity servers -- was rejected
rather capriciously. Such treatment doesn't exactly make folks feel as 
if contributions are welcome.

--Brett Glass



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