Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 12:23:38 -0700 (MST) From: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> To: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com> Cc: nate@yogotech.com, 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] Message-ID: <15023.50490.58772.449835@nomad.yogotech.com> In-Reply-To: <20010314111927Q.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> References: <15023.42384.196115.528084@nomad.yogotech.com> <20010314104836N.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> <15023.48910.778438.228247@nomad.yogotech.com> <20010314111927Q.jkh@osd.bsdi.com>
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> > Again, we can agree to disagree. The parts of FreeBSD that set us apart > > from the other OS's are submissions by brilliant coders and visionaries, > > many of whom are no longer as active as they once were. > > I think we must simply have a very different definition of "brilliant" > then. The people I've worked with these last nine years have been > some very bright folks, but brilliant? Albert Einstein was brilliant. > Richard Feynman was brilliant. Folks like you and I are merely > "smart" :) Well, that's pushing it a bit. Compared to you and I, the folks who implemented most of the breakthrough technologies in FreeBSD are brillliant. :) :) :) :) > > Or the VM system, or the easier install tools, or the ports system, or > > SMPng, or real-working shared libraries, etc.... > > I would argue that all of these are incremental refinements and all > fairly obvious ones at that, requiring more of an investment of sweat > than brilliance. Again, I disagree completely. And, I believe the folks that did the work would disagree completely. Anything as ground-breaking is more than a refinement. The VM system is a total re-write. The ports system (your baby) might be considered a incremental refinement, but SMPng is way more than an incremental refinement. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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