From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jan 18 20:13:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp03.primenet.com (smtp03.primenet.com [206.165.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 614DA37B404 for ; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 20:12:55 -0800 (PST) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp03.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA13133; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 21:10:10 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr08.primenet.com(206.165.6.208) via SMTP by smtp03.primenet.com, id smtpdAAAWDaaBz; Thu Jan 18 21:09:58 2001 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr08.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA27824; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 21:12:27 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200101190412.VAA27824@usr08.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Why did NetBSD and FreeBSD diverge? To: brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass) Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 04:12:26 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), opentrax@email.com, howardjp@well.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, netbsd-advocacy@NetBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010118152351.00cb89a0@localhost> from "Brett Glass" at Jan 18, 2001 03:26:13 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > >Actually, I view the whole thing as a useful applied sociology > >experiment, from which much useful information derived. If I > >had the academic credentials as a social scientist to be seriously > >published in the field, or wasn't busy with other things to the > >point of being unable to waste time acquiring them, I'd write > >several papers on the topic. > > A lack of credentials -- or a lack of ethics -- hasn't stopped > one Eric Raymond from writing papers on this topic, most of > them self-serving propaganda. You SHOULD publish, Terry; you > make a lot more sense than Eric and wouldn't simply be out to > increase the value of your stock. I said "seriously". Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message