From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Oct 4 14:24:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05B7237B503 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 14:24:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA16195; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 14:21:58 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr06.primenet.com(206.165.6.206) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpdAAAIcaWkF; Wed Oct 4 14:21:40 2000 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr06.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA02522; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 14:24:08 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200010042124.OAA02522@usr06.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Buying vs. "Buying in" To: keichii@peorth.iteration.net Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 21:24:07 +0000 (GMT) Cc: brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass), chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20001004121710.C24813@peorth.iteration.net> from "Michael C . Wu" at Oct 04, 2000 12:17:10 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > | than buying a product. This is true of all cooperatively > | developed and maintained software. The sense of community is > | vital to the whole thing. This is why territoriality in such > | situations is so ungood. > > Territoriality in Bill Joy gave BSD its TCP/IP stack. Not really; that was DARPA. Bill did very little "peeing on things to make them smell like Bill"; he's done some of that recently, taking credit for an idea that Chicken Little had long ago, but it's been very absent from his non-pundit career, so far as I've been able to tell. Pissing contests are almost always a bad idea, unless you are certain you have just had a "Super Big Gulp", and you know your opponent hasn't, and isn't on diuretics. Even then, it just mostly leaves you looking like a bully, and is pretty much bad form all around: short term gain at the expense of long term gain, a bad trade. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message