Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 01:02:01 -0700 (PDT) From: "/dev/null" <null@dnswatch.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Toxa <postfix@sendmail.ru> Subject: Re: boot banner project Message-ID: <60093.216.177.243.35.1114761721.localmail@webmail.dnswatch.com> In-Reply-To: <20050429005319.GA17799@laptoxa.toxa.lan> References: <57436.216.177.243.42.1114582155.localmail@webmail.dnswatch.com><426FDE69.8090909@samsco.org> <426FE1EA.7020900@kutulu.org><20050428105348.GA8056@laptoxa.toxa.lan> <4270E7F1.9010502@kutulu.org> <20050429005319.GA17799@laptoxa.toxa.lan>
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> On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 09:41:05AM -0400, Mike Edenfield wrote: >> >> 1) It is far from a stupid idea if even one person honestly feels it >> would be a benefit. No need to be abusive about it. > > Yes, I have to mention this was only my humble opinion. > >> >> 2) If I were to choose to work on FreeBSD, I would be free to work on >> whatever I felt was lacking. That's how it works. Especially given >> that I have nowhere near enough skill in C to work on more complex >> system-level issues. > > Yes, you can do whatewer you want. But what about the result? I think > several hundreds lines of lolypop-boot-related code will definitively > NOT bring FreeBSD more cleaness and design simpleness. And that's > everyone likes in > BSDs! "And that's everyone likes in BSD's" WOW! Were you elected Official Spokesperson for everyone? ;) >> >> 3) I was merely making suggestions as to what alternatives were >> available. Since almost every Linux distro does something similar to >> this proposal, there is obviously SOME merit to it; the benefit may be >> miniscule, or irrelevant to many people, but it still exists. >> > > See my opinion above. It's a bad, BAD style, to add features till > then they're really necessary and desirable. IMHO. See my opinion of your deciding to decide my opinion above. ;) I might also add that if it is *your* opinion that it should not be added. Then I would suggest to you that you simply *not* add it to your own installation. In short; an addon is simply that - an addon. You don't like it? don't add it. :) No "sour grapes" here. Just felt the need to chime in. -Chris > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > //////////////////////////////////////////////////// If only Western Electric had found a way to offer binary licenses for the UNIX system back in 1974, the UNIX system would be running on all PC's today rather than DOS/Windows. ////////////////////////////////////////////////////
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