From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Aug 15 17:14:13 1996 Return-Path: owner-doc Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA11402 for doc-outgoing; Thu, 15 Aug 1996 17:14:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jraynard.demon.co.uk (jraynard.demon.co.uk [158.152.42.77]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA11301 for ; Thu, 15 Aug 1996 17:13:43 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 15 Aug 1996 23:53:15 GMT From: fdocs@jraynard.demon.co.uk (James Raynard) Reply-To: fdocs@jraynard.demon.co.uk Message-Id: <630@jraynard.demon.co.uk> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New section: development X-Mailer: PCElm 1.10 Lines: 26 Sender: owner-doc@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In message <22881.840135964@time.cdrom.com> "Jordan K. Hubbard" writes: > > Perhaps we should have a separate section for this kind of thing - how > > about "Religion and Politics" (the first piece of advice in every > > ettiquette book used to be "never discuss religion or politics at > > dinner")? > > I don't have any trouble with a "things your mother never told you > about" section per-se, but I'd have to insist that everything in it be > *very carefully worded* to exhibit a total lack of bias. Absolutely. (This is one of the reasons why I've not been in any great hurry to post it for discussion). > Imagine > you're a (good) documentary filmmaker doing a piece on neo-NAZI > skinheads - some of what you're filming may be personally distasteful > but it's not your job to judge it, simply to portray it accurately. Rather a strange analogy (I didn't realise our relations with the Linux camp were quite that bad :-) but I've certainly tried very hard to be objective and to be fair to all sides. The emphasis is very much on clearing up common misconceptions about FreeBSD, *not* on providing ammo to re-kindle old flame wars (or start new ones). -- James Raynard