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Date:      Wed, 2 Apr 1997 18:38:32 -0700 (MST)
From:      Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To:        Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Cc:        jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard), phk@critter.dk.tfs.com, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ufs lock panic in -current
Message-ID:  <199704030138.SAA18970@rocky.mt.sri.com>
In-Reply-To: <199704030028.RAA15056@phaeton.artisoft.com>
References:  <18413.860026094@time.cdrom.com> <199704030028.RAA15056@phaeton.artisoft.com>

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> Who else do you treat as a supermarket, where their whole sources
> must be laid out for you to pick and choose what you want, without
> regard to how your choices impact their own ability to use the
> resulting code base for their own research?

Every other BSD OS that has come.  Every other free software project
that has maintainers.  Every project that has some people that 'own' it
because of their salaries, responsibilities, time and effort.

> > One would think that 2 years would be long enough to get the point.  I
> > guess with some people it just takes longer (or harder walls).
> 
> One would think that 2 years would be long enough to earn citizenship
> rights.  You don't make these requirements of your other contributors.

Sure we do.  You've yet to show that you can 'play by the rules', and
your recent temper-tantrum only shows that you haven't changed your
tactics nor your willingness to work with the team.


Nate



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