From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 9 12:32:33 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id MAA21520 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 9 Mar 1995 12:32:33 -0800 Received: from expo.x.org (expo.x.org [198.112.45.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA21514 for ; Thu, 9 Mar 1995 12:32:28 -0800 Received: from fedora.x.org by expo.x.org id AA01372; Thu, 9 Mar 95 15:31:19 -0500 Received: by fedora.x.org id AA01676; Thu, 9 Mar 1995 15:31:18 -0500 Message-Id: <9503092031.AA01676@fedora.x.org> To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: BSD Consortium? In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 09 Mar 1995 09:07:01 EST." <199503091407.JAA03705@rwwa.com> Date: Thu, 09 Mar 1995 15:31:18 EST From: "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> Actually, this was first considered some time ago, and was discussed >> at length by Robert Withrow, myself, and others. >I probably have the news article I posted about it. At the time >I proposed it `those who know everything' loudly lambasted it >as the stupidest idea any mortal ever had. Yup. I'd say that there's a really deeply entrenched tradition for doing just that! :-) Having really thick skin is a definite necessity. > ``Just look how >the X consortium has destroyed window systems!'' they said. Yeah, we work really really hard at that. Too bad there's only really one window system that needs to be destroyed and we don't seem to be able to do much about it. -- Kaleb KEITHLEY