Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 21:24:07 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: keichii@peorth.iteration.net Cc: brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass), chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Buying vs. "Buying in" Message-ID: <200010042124.OAA02522@usr06.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <20001004121710.C24813@peorth.iteration.net> from "Michael C . Wu" at Oct 04, 2000 12:17:10 PM
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> | 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
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