Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 13:03:36 -0800 From: "Dave Walton" <walton@nordicdms.com> To: David Greenman <dg@root.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD core developer splits up into two branches?? Message-ID: <19981102210337.13998.qmail@modgud.nordicdms.com> In-Reply-To: <199811021332.FAA02731@implode.root.com> References: Your message of "Mon, 02 Nov 1998 14:01:42 %2B0100." <Pine.LNX.4.05.9811021359040.2950-100000@hirohito.acc.umu.se>
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On 2 Nov 98, at 5:32, David Greenman wrote: > >This is what I read on Slashdot: > > > >"The current war being raged on the private core developers > >mailing list is coming down to a new schism for FreeBSD. > >By the end of the year there should be two versions of FreeBSD > >headed by rival core teems. The question remains > >who will get to keep the name FreeBSD. At the moment it looks > >like it may come down to FreeBSD1 and FreeBSD2" > > Huh? Do you perhaps have a URL? > This is complete and total nonsense. There is no war being raged in any > mailing list that I'm on, nor is there any schism developing between anyone > involved with FreeBSD. I have no idea what they could possibly be talking > about. I would suggest that you get your news about FreeBSD from non-Linux > propaganda sources. The quote above is the entirety of an *anonymous* comment made in response to the article "FreeBSD sets new Bandwidth Record" on Slashdot. (see http://www.slashdot.org/articles/98/11/01/177215.shtml) The poster could not be bothered to identify himself, and the comment had nothing whatsoever to do with any of the surrounding conversation. Jordan's reply on Slashdot This is complete and utter FUD. If there's a war currently raging on our core mailing list then it must be the quietest, most whitespace intensive mail war in history since I've certainly seen nothing of the kind. In fact, it's been fairly quiet lately modulo some discussion of our recent european gathering in Arnhem and what the core team members who went there accomplished (speaking as someone who went, I can say that we mostly managed to have a very good time and talk a lot about FreeBSD :-). Either somebody out there has been licking paint chips again or the recent "Halloween Memo" from (reputedly) Microsoft has embolded certain incautious Linux advocates to plunge in and make up some copy of their own in hopes that someone will be naive enough to buy it. Bah. The quality of FUD has really gone down lately and it's almost embarsssing to reply to it. So please, if you're going to spread FUD, make it at least semi-believable FUD. :-) - Jordan Hubbard co-founder/release manager, the FreeBSD Project This is complete and utter FUD. If there's a war currently raging on our core mailing list then it must be the quietest, most whitespace intensive mail war in history since I've certainly seen nothing of the kind. In fact, it's been fairly quiet lately modulo some discussion of our recent european gathering in Arnhem and what the core team members who went there accomplished (speaking as someone who went, I can say that we mostly managed to have a very good time and talk a lot about FreeBSD :-). Either somebody out there has been licking paint chips again or the recent "Halloween Memo" from (reputedly) Microsoft has embolded certain incautious Linux advocates to plunge in and make up some copy of their own in hopes that someone will be naive enough to buy it. Bah. The quality of FUD has really gone down lately and it's almost embarsssing to reply to it. So please, if you're going to spread FUD, make it at least semi-believable FUD. :-) - Jordan Hubbard co-founder/release manager, the FreeBSD Project This is complete and utter FUD. If there's a war currently raging on our core mailing list then it must be the quietest, most whitespace intensive mail war in history since I've certainly seen nothing of the kind. In fact, it's been fairly quiet lately modulo some discussion of our recent european gathering in Arnhem and what the core team members who went there accomplished (speaking as someone who went, I can say that we mostly managed to have a very good time and talk a lot about FreeBSD :-). Either somebody out there has been licking paint chips again or the recent "Halloween Memo" from (reputedly) Microsoft has embolded certain incautious Linux advocates to plunge in and make up some copy of their own in hopes that someone will be naive enough to buy it. Bah. The quality of FUD has really gone down lately and it's almost embarsssing to reply to it. So please, if you're going to spread FUD, make it at least semi-believable FUD. :-) - Jordan Hubbard co-founder/release manager, the FreeBSD Project This is complete and utter FUD. If there's a war currently raging on our core mailing list then it must be the quietest, most whitespace intensive mail war in history since I've certainly seen nothing of the kind. In fact, it's been fairly quiet lately modulo some discussion of our recent european gathering in Arnhem and what the core team members who went there accomplished (speaking as someone who went, I can say that we mostly managed to have a very good time and talk a lot about FreeBSD :-). Either somebody out there has been licking paint chips again or the recent "Halloween Memo" from (reputedly) Microsoft has embolded certain incautious Linux advocates to plunge in and make up some copy of their own in hopes that someone will be naive enough to buy it. Bah. The quality of FUD has really gone down lately and it's almost embarsssing to reply to it. So please, if you're going to spread FUD, make it at least semi-believable FUD. :-) - Jordan Hubbard co-founder/release manager, the FreeBSD Project This is complete and utter FUD. If there's a war currently raging on our core mailing list then it must be the quietest, most whitespace intensive mail war in history since I've certainly seen nothing of the kind. In fact, it's been fairly quiet lately modulo some discussion of our recent european gathering in Arnhem and what the core team members who went there accomplished (speaking as someone who went, I can say that we mostly managed to have a very good time and talk a lot about FreeBSD :-). Either somebody out there has been licking paint chips again or the recent "Halloween Memo" from (reputedly) Microsoft has embolded certain incautious Linux advocates to plunge in and make up some copy of their own in hopes that someone will be naive enough to buy it. Bah. The quality of FUD has really gone down lately and it's almost embarsssing to reply to it. So please, if you're going to spread FUD, make it at least semi-believable FUD. :-) - Jordan Hubbard co-founder/release manager, the FreeBSD Project ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dave Walton Webmaster, Postmaster Nordic Entertainment Worldwide walton@nordicdms.com http://www.nordicdms.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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