Date: Sun, 9 Jul 1995 11:42:19 -0400 From: dennis@et.htp.com (dennis) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Proposal to change name of this list to a less embarrassing one Message-ID: <199507091542.LAA14509@mail.htp.com>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
I know that Jordan already has stated that the "hackers" stays, but this discussion seems to lack one important element, which is the definition of the FreeBSD goals. What is FreeBSD? Yet Another OS? What are the goals? To be the Best OS? To get more developers? To be better than Linux and BSD/OS? To be more widely used? And if so, why is "corporate acceptance" important? Or are there underlying commercial motivations, like to sell more CDROMS, or to provide a good free O/S for the consulting ventures of the "hackers"? Its quite a mystery to me. db [much deleted] >>>> >>>> I propose we change the list name `hackers' to [ Suggestions Please ]. >>>This is just caving in to Political Correctness. Fight the ignorant masses >>>who want to homogenise and de-flavour everything. 'hackers' has some spirit. >>>dev@freebsd.org is about as exciting as /dev/null. >I'd rather not apply the politically correctness constraints to our technical >collaboration. There has to be somewhere you can go to get away from it. > >
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199507091542.LAA14509>