From owner-cvs-all Wed Mar 14 9: 8:55 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48B6F37B719; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 09:08:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@yogotech.com) Received: from nomad.yogotech.com (nomad.yogotech.com [206.127.123.131]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA14535; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 10:08:46 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@nomad.yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by nomad.yogotech.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA24939; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 10:08:32 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate) From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15023.42384.196115.528084@nomad.yogotech.com> Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 10:08:32 -0700 (MST) To: Jordan Hubbard Cc: asmodai@wxs.nl, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: The Project and onward [was: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/netinet ip_output.c] In-Reply-To: <20010313131934K.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> References: <20010312043409.A86273@mollari.cthul.hu> <20010312103340.A15895@dragon.nuxi.com> <20010313104243.B60817@daemon.ninth-circle.org> <20010313131934K.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > When we're talking about "architectural direction" for the entire > project, however, I don't think that's something we're going to > properly arrive just by sitting around as a group of engineers and > thinking of what it would be neat to do. If we simply stay neutral > and *react* when customers start agitating for something then FreeBSD > will always remain popular and relevant to what people need because > we'll be the ones who "get it" about who we're really writing software > for. Ahh, then we can be called Microsoft, because our software continually grows, with no direction. > That's a bit of "architectural direction" I'm proud to say that > FreeBSD has had all along and it's certainly one of the major reasons > why I'm here. I disagree vehemently with this statement, having been around as long as you. FreeBSD has had very specific direction from folks in the past, although most of the folks that established direction are either too busy now, or have left. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message