From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Oct 8 15: 0:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED53114F78 for ; Fri, 8 Oct 1999 15:00:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by lariat.lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA07842; Fri, 8 Oct 1999 16:00:05 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.19991008155827.0443c960@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Fri, 08 Oct 1999 16:00:00 -0600 To: "Matthew D. Fuller" From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Targeting the server: Not such a good idea? Cc: Joseph Scott , chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19991008163812.H20768@futuresouth.com> References: <4.2.0.58.19991008143949.043f2a30@localhost> <4.2.0.58.19991008083634.044de740@localhost> <37FE3827.A45735D8@owp.csus.edu> <4.2.0.58.19991008143949.043f2a30@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 04:38 PM 10/8/99 -0500, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: >And someone in that then-grown pool will care about the desktop in a >personal way, and will work to improve it, and solve the problem. >Right now, nobody (or very few people) take the desktop personally, so >nothing will get done because nobody cares enough to do it. 'Because it >has to be done' is nowhere near as big an incentive as 'I want to do >this'. Well, I WANT TO DO THIS. That's one of the reasons I'm waiting with bated breath for Jordan to grant me permission to use the name "FreeBSD" on a new distribution. Once I have this permission, I can generate the income to fund the effort -- and donate a whole lot of code back to the project. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message