Date: 10 Apr 2004 07:44:41 -0600 From: llewelly@xmission.com To: "Atte Peltomaki" <koston@iki.fi> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Future of FreeBSD Message-ID: <s3rptag0wxi.fsf@xmission.xmission.com> In-Reply-To: <20040410115135.GA20807@norsu.kameli.org> References: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1040409095401.62857A-100000@fledge.watson.org> <BC9C2E47.5D8CA%joe@via.net> <20040410115135.GA20807@norsu.kameli.org>
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"Atte Peltomaki" <koston@iki.fi> writes: [snip] > It still leaves me wonder - why is the user/developer-base so hostile > towards any critique on the system? In my experience, the investment of great effort, whether to develop a system, or to learn it in great detail, naturually results in an emotional attachment. I will go so far as to say that it is unrealistic to expect no defensive replies to criticism, however well-intended. A good engineer will do his best to put that emotional attachment in its place, and try to see well-reasoned criticism as a way to improve his work - but when the criticism contains 'obvious' errors, it may not seem worth the effort to do so. This is hardly unique to freebsd. > I'm nonetheless a supporter of > FreeBSD's, and as much as any of you, would like to see a glorious > release of the 5-STABLE when time is right. If you were to read criticism of freebsd which you percieved to contain 'obvious' errors, would you react defensively? I am betting you would. > I simply wanted to state > some of my concerns as a user about the time and it's rightness amongst > some other things, and indeed only Robert took the time to actually > answer to me. Thank you, Robert, for that. I think the posts by Robert and phk are the redeeming value of this thread. :-)
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