Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 12:35:03 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Distributions: Leveling the playing field Message-ID: <83679.937337703@localhost> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 14 Sep 1999 12:53:48 MDT." <4.2.0.58.19990914122930.04ad8c20@localhost>
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> If there were not an intimate association between you and Walnut Creek > CD-ROM, I would not be concerned. But because you are an employee *shrug* - can't help you there, sorry. I've explained all this about as much as it's possible to explain it and I don't see any future alternations in this situation happening, so there you have it. > Many things written by others are released on CD-ROMs labeled "FreeBSD" > now. They include everything from XFree86 to GCC to a plethora of editors, I don't see the relevance of this point. > network utilities, and other tools. The installation program even > invokes some of these products -- e.g. the XFree86 installer! So, So? > What you seem to be concerned about, in this case, is the possibility > that a third party component or utility will be mistaken for the FreeBSD > project's work. Again, the current release already creates this problem No, I'm worried that there will be a whole third party distribution which will be mistaken for the FreeBSD Project's release. If somebody really wants to think we wrote XFree86 all by ourselves and are major coding studs, well, I won't lose any sleep over that though folks like David Dawes sure might. :) > It is very likely that many things which were done as part of that > distribution would be contributed. But this should not be a requirement. As long as the component itself was not a requirement to installing the product, I'd agree. If you make your hypothetical new installer a requirement and now all the users of "FreeBSD HyperBrett" are going through a substantially different installation experience and posting emails to -questions which say things like "I'm at the default smell configuration menu and I can't decide between (M)usty library and (D)amp basement, has anyone tried these two smells yet?", well, the people who staff those lists are going to be exceedingly confused. If you were to donate the installer to the project and everybody agreed that setting the default smell and viscosity of one's desktop were fabulous options which they really wish had been in there all along, well, then your installer would be the new default and the only "odd questions" they'd get in -questions would be from people using the old installer, to which of course they'd just yell "upgrade" and go on to the next message. No problem. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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