Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 21:10:04 -0700 From: "Rudy Gireyev" <rgireyev@cnmnetwork.com> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net> Cc: J_Shevland@TurnAround.com.au, java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can I help with the JDK2 port? Message-ID: <19990430041201.CC21814DFF@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9904292142510.378-100000@picnic.mat.net> References: <99Apr28.174919pdt.26883@bohica.con.securecomputing.com>
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Somebody forgot to take their medication again! This can't be good. Rudy On 29 Apr 99, at 21:49, Chuck Robey wrote: > On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Richard Levenberg wrote: > > > Joe, > > > > I appreciated your comments and was surprised at Nate William's reply. I > > gave him the benefit of the doubt and assumed that I had missed > > something on the website (http://www.freebsd.org/java). I went back to > > look for something like an anonymous CVS, or something that I could just > > look at and decide for myself whether I was capable and had the time. I > > still havent found anything. > > You guys are offering to do something that is not needed, and are > complaining because, when you offer to do 1% of the work, everyone > doesn't shower you with roses. > > The porting's a lot of REAL work, and the guys who know how to do it are > all currently kinda tied up. It's not here now, and taking pot shots at > Nate, who actually HAS provided code, comes ill from a bunch of folks who > haven't provided anything at all. > > You haven't even bothered to check out the Sun web site, and if you deny > it, then how come you didn't know about Sun making the source code > available? It's on their web site, they didn't hide it. You want the > code, go get it. > > I get a little hot at folks getting shirty about not treating their > offers as if they were real work. Read this list a little, and you'll see > offers come all the time, but real work doesn't. If you want folks to > take you seriously, don't offer things, show stuff you've already done. > God knows there's enough things to do. > > Good intentions are not good deeds. > > > ----------------------------+--------------------------------------------- > -- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or > data chuckr@picnic.mat.net | communications topic, C programming, > and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I > run picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt > (Solaris7). > ----------------------------+--------------------------------------------- > -- > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message
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