Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 11:43:54 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Where is FreeBSD going? Message-ID: <20040122011354.GG86671@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20040107041307.GA1674@online.fr> References: <p06002027bc20fbfa66b6@[10.0.1.4]> <20040107041307.GA1674@online.fr>
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--5FDBdOf8+srCecG/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sorry to drag this thread on, but I've just got round to looking at it, and I see a thing I need to clarify. On Tuesday, 6 January 2004 at 23:13:07 -0500, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > Brad Knowles wrote: > [ ... Matt Dillon ... ] >>> OK, I've never run into that. Over on the DragonFly stuff, he seems >>> pleasant enough and his ideas are innovative, strong, if sometimes... >>> *cough*... eccentric (e.g. replacing sysinstall with an Apache server >>> and a load of PHP...), but I'll accept I haven't seen that, and I >>> know others have had their problems there. >> >> Well, since it's his project, I'm sure he feels a lot more >> secure. > > No, I have exactly the same impression from his FreeBSD mailing list > postings too, and many others said the same thing when he was chucked > out. He was always willing to help inexperienced people and his mails > were a pleasure to read for their technical detail. The impression > given out then (eg, by Greg Lehey in DaemonNews) was that he had two > faces to his personality: the friendly help-newbies one, and an > aggressive behind-the-scenes one that only showed up when dealing with > other developers. Hmm, that's not quite what I meant. Matt's usually friendly and helpful with other developers too. He just doesn't handle it gracefully when people push him around. That's hardly surprising, but I think that it upsets Matt even more than it upsets most people. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --5FDBdOf8+srCecG/ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFADyPSIubykFB6QiMRAoTOAKCWTiJ0mXvQIvTaYIN60TX5U5BcVQCgjjiM f/jFwWBGs1zlAVsfH3+bBzI= =tsVu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --5FDBdOf8+srCecG/--
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