From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Sep 8 20:14: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail3.atl.bellsouth.net (mail3.atl.bellsouth.net [205.152.0.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C0C614D85 for ; Wed, 8 Sep 1999 20:13:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wghicks@bellsouth.net) Received: from wghicks.bellsouth.net (host-216-78-40-157.ath.bellsouth.net [216.78.40.157]) by mail3.atl.bellsouth.net (3.3.2/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA06254; Wed, 8 Sep 1999 23:10:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: from wghicks.bellsouth.net (wghicks@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wghicks.bellsouth.net (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id XAA02089; Wed, 8 Sep 1999 23:17:52 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wghicks@wghicks.bellsouth.net) Message-Id: <199909090317.XAA02089@bellsouth.net> To: Terry Lambert Cc: asmodai@wxs.nl (Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai), Dom.Mitchell@palmerharvey.co.uk, chat@FreeBSD.ORG, wghicks@wghicks.bellsouth.net Subject: Re: MS & Linux duopoly In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 09 Sep 1999 00:56:20 -0000." <199909090056.RAA07813@usr02.primenet.com> Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 23:17:52 -0400 From: W Gerald Hicks Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > One response to this is to ensure that -ports patch files get > integrated (not just emailed or contributed) back to the project > maintainers. AMEN! This is (in my mind at least) a fairly serious problem that needs addressing. Quite often, it doesn't happen simply because of limited resources, but we should all try harder to get FreeBSD recognized as a first-class player in other projects. Also, I believe this is even more true for things imported into /usr/src ... To be fair, a few committers *are* going the extra mile for these efforts (David Obrien probably deserves special recognition here). Cheers, Jerry Hicks wghicks@bellsouth.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message