From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Sep 8 22:44:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp05.wxs.nl (smtp05.wxs.nl [195.121.6.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7992C14D1D; Wed, 8 Sep 1999 22:44:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.196.9]) by smtp05.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.61) with ESMTP id AAC38E1; Thu, 9 Sep 1999 07:44:06 +0200 Received: (from asmodai@localhost) by daemon.ninth-circle.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id HAA66758; Thu, 9 Sep 1999 07:30:55 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from asmodai) Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 07:30:55 +0200 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: W Gerald Hicks Cc: Terry Lambert , Dom.Mitchell@palmerharvey.co.uk, chat@FreeBSD.ORG, wghicks@wghicks.bellsouth.net, obrien@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MS & Linux duopoly Message-ID: <19990909073055.J64229@daemon.ninth-circle.org> References: <199909090056.RAA07813@usr02.primenet.com> <199909090317.XAA02089@bellsouth.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.7i In-Reply-To: <199909090317.XAA02089@bellsouth.net> Organisation: Ninth-Circle Enterprises Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org * W Gerald Hicks (wghicks@bellsouth.net) [990909 07:14]: >> One response to this is to ensure that -ports patch files get >> integrated (not just emailed or contributed) back to the project >> maintainers. Been there, tried that. Sometimes you do it against deaf man's ears. But I'll just be more of a hardhead than they are now shall I? =) >To be fair, a few committers *are* going the extra mile for these >efforts (David Obrien probably deserves special recognition here). Indeed. David has done tremendous things. [Gerald/David: The Dragon book plus the Unix Prog Env book are in my possession now =) Just to let you know] -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai asmodai(at)wxs.nl The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project Network/Security Specialist BSD: Technical excellence at its best A frightened mental vortex we will be, a Sun we seek, a Sun we flee... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message