From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Jul 17 13:36:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from zippy.osd.bsdi.com (zippy.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6C3437BC13 for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 13:36:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com) Received: from localhost (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA07039; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 13:36:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com) To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: Michael Lucas , alex@big.endian.de (Alexander Langer), freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bikesheds In-reply-to: Your message of "17 Jul 2000 21:55:29 +0200." Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 13:36:31 -0700 Message-ID: <7036.963866191@localhost> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Bzzt, wrong, but thanks for playing. > > A bikeshed discussion is a discussion about a bikeshed which everyone > agrees would be nice to have in the back yard, but will fight until > death to stop it from being built because, as they repeatedly and > loudly point out, the suggested paint scheme is just *wrong*. Actually, as someone who remembers phk's original discussion (and the citation of some Danish aphorism from which it springs), this is wrong too. :-) It has to do with getting planning permits and building the damn thing at all. You can generally get permission to build a sky-scraper since that just involves greasing a few politicians and dealing with the people downtown, but try and put a bike shed on the corner in your neighborhood... - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message