From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 9 19:56:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [64.211.219.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86E3537B401; Mon, 9 Jul 2001 19:56:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr02.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA05211; Mon, 9 Jul 2001 19:56:03 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr02.primenet.com(206.165.6.202) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpdAAAIzaqfk; Mon Jul 9 19:55:49 2001 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr02.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA20027; Mon, 9 Jul 2001 20:12:07 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200107100312.UAA20027@usr02.primenet.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral To: jkh@osd.bsdi.com Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 03:11:50 +0000 (GMT) Cc: nik@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, tedm@toybox.placo.com, ewayte@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG 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-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ] This is all patently ridiculous, especially given that we know you ] have a previously declared bias in being able to sell some sort of ] installer for money and would clearly wish to kill any "competition" ] for it, no matter how benign it would be to otherwise include it as an ] option (which is all Nik was saying). You are confusing me with Brett Glass. Yes, I believe that Brett should have been permitted to do his thing, and replace the installer. I personally would have liked to see a "Soft Updates" style license, where Brett would sell for a year, and then the code would revert to a simple BSD license. ] Whether you personally find any merit in sysinstall or not, and I'm ] often among the first to point out its many shortcomings, trying to ] kill it off for business reasons is just as obnoxious and ] Microsoft-ish as trying to kill off, say, RAID support because you ] just so happen to have a proprietary RAID solution you'd prefer users ] to use instead. Yeesh! Talk about a complete and total failure to ] get what FreeBSD is all about! I really have to wonder why you ] continue to hover around the community like a horsefly, year after ] year, without contributing anything but complaints about how things ] should be remoulded in your own image... It's a crock, Terry, and ] it stinks like a porta-potty in Texas at high noon. Yeah, pull the other one. PS: Speaking of RAID I'm the one who provided the patches that made the user space version of RAIDFrame run on FreeBSD. 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-hackers" in the body of the message