From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jan 21 15:30:42 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64EB537B401 for <chat@freebsd.org>; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 15:30:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from heron.mail.pas.earthlink.net (heron.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.189]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D816E43ED8 for <chat@freebsd.org>; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 15:30:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0183.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.42.183] helo=mindspring.com) by heron.mail.pas.earthlink.net with asmtp (SSLv3:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18b7qk-00059x-00; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 15:30:35 -0800 Message-ID: <3E2DD7B9.4677E97A@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 15:28:57 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@attbi.com> Cc: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr>, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GCC as a selling point for FreeBSD? (Not!) References: <sj65sjr67h.5sj@localhost.localdomain> <20030120141556.E1857@papagena.rockefeller.edu> <20030120160000.F1857@papagena.rockefeller.edu> <hvadhvp7xi.dhv@localhost.localdomain> <3E2CC016.54BDBA5F@mindspring.com> <824r82pea2.r82@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: b1a02af9316fbb217a47c185c03b154d40683398e744b8a47ba4ef7a0abebd1f98e6f53fe7c7395b387f7b89c61deb1d350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: <freebsd-chat.FreeBSD.ORG> List-Archive: <http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/> (Web Archive) List-Help: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=help> (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=subscribe%20freebsd-chat> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=unsubscribe%20freebsd-chat> X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Gary W. Swearingen" wrote: > Your diagnosis of FreeBSD marketing/change/Brett/etc was interesting and > I agree fully (to the extent I understand "emergent properties" :). Emergent properties: "Usually unintended consequences which are obvious in retrospective analysis, but not obvious before the fact, without a significant understanding of systems engineering, and an application of that knowledge to the system(s) in question." 8-). Or, if you'd prefer: "Things that happen that we didn't expect to happen, but if we did the same things again, the same things would happen, again." 8-) 8-). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message