From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Feb 7 10:00:47 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA22272 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sun, 7 Feb 1999 10:00:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from miris.lcs.mit.edu (miris.lcs.mit.edu [18.111.0.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA22261 for ; Sun, 7 Feb 1999 10:00:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from beng@lcs.mit.edu) Received: from alnitak (root@miris.lcs.mit.edu [18.111.0.89]) by miris.lcs.mit.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id NAA00673; Sun, 7 Feb 1999 13:00:24 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199902071800.NAA00673@miris.lcs.mit.edu> From: "Benjamin Greenwald" To: "Mark Murray" Cc: Subject: RE: Naming branches Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1999 13:00:35 -0500 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2377.0 In-reply-to: <199902070913.LAA43322@greenpeace.grondar.za> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Murray [mailto:mark@grondar.za] > Sent: Sunday, February 07, 1999 4:14 AM > To: Benjamin Greenwald > Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Naming branches > > > > Sarcasm is unlikely to help anyone. > > If you got a little less confrontational, and a little less defensive, > it is very likely that more people will listen to you. Actually, of all the mailings that have been sent out on this subject, I think mine was the least confrontational. I was simply trying to state how I felt about the tendency of the people in this project to discount new ideas as complaints and to discount users who aren't also developers. After all, it is the common users that choose to become the developers. If they end up feeling burned by FreeBSD, they aren't likely to choose to donate to it. They'll just order their free copy of Solaris. At least they'll have someone to call with their problems that won't talk down to them. -Ben Greenwald To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message