From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Sep 13 13:56:36 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 BCDBC155F1 for ; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 13:56:34 -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 OAA25772; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 14:56:02 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.19990913144708.04ab3a70@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 14:55:12 -0600 To: Phil Regnauld From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: FreeBSD Distributions: Leveling the playing field Cc: Jonathan Lemon , jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19990913204713.07674@ns.int.ftf.net> References: <4.2.0.58.19990913120027.04ae8e10@localhost> <199909131750.MAA07240@free.pcs> <4.2.0.58.19990913120027.04ae8e10@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 08:47 PM 9/13/99 +0200, Phil Regnauld wrote: > You know, you might have avoided a lot of friction and > gotten supoprt for your cause earlier, if it hadn't taken you > so damn long to clearly state what you wanted to do. But I did! In fact, I first mentioned the concept more than a month ago. No forks -- and nothing that would hurt the development project. > You may unfortunately already have pissed off many people on the lists > by now. There are, indeed, some people who are annoyed by all the traffic, if not the content. And a few people who have attacked me personally. But I hope that, when they see that I'm trying to do some good stuff which is in fact similar to what Walnut Creek is already doing, they'll come around. Who knows? Maybe even some of those who are so angry at me will forgive me (though I might have to find a way to bribe them. ;-) --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message