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Date:      Wed, 29 Jul 1998 12:37:11 -0600
From:      Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To:        The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
Cc:        freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, phk@FreeBSD.ORG, sos@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: The future of the bt848 driver? (FW: cvs commit: CVSROOT avail) 
Message-ID:  <199807291837.MAA28435@mt.sri.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980729142501.11716P-100000@hub.org>
References:  <199807291804.MAA28055@mt.sri.com> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980729142501.11716P-100000@hub.org>

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[ Conspiracy theories abound ... ]

> 	Damn, I watch too much X-files :)

No kidding.  I should have kept my mouth shut in the first place, but my
intent wasn't to slam core, or the core members in general.  My intent
was to state my take on what happended with Amancio.  Lord nows I've had
my beefs with him (I've got email to prove it..), but I don't like the
attitude that I perceive a few core members portray.

Does this mean I think they haven't worked their butts off for FreeBSD?
Of course not, but there are alot of people who work as hard as they do
but don't get 'core' recognition, nor do most of the core people
'justify' their actions by using the 'core' club.

Bad code/decisions aren't justified by being a core member, and neither
is the inability to work with others.  Being a core members means that
they have a *responsibility* to make FreeBSD better, and not to lower
themselves to pushing their weight around.

Heck, if I were to venture a guess, I'd say that John left because he
couldn't work with the other members of core, for whatever reason.
That's a good reason to leave the core (it was mine), and I've never
regretted it.  I took a different tact than John though, and I'm still
involved in FreeBSD and make changes (much to the chagrin of certain
folks), but I don't try and let it bother me.  But, because I'm not a
core member neither do I have the responisibility of *having* to do
work on FreeBSD, so I can go fishing whenever I feel like it, including
just before and during a release. :)



Nate

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