From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Feb 27 20:47: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFD9437B7EF for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2000 20:44:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA46650; Sun, 27 Feb 2000 23:44:46 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 23:44:42 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey To: Michael Bacarella Cc: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: idea: official hardware manufacturer blacklist - let's wake em up! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 27 Feb 2000, Michael Bacarella wrote: > > I love the idea myself, but I have no power over FreeBSD :( You may not like the shape of the world, but I don't think getting publicly nasty about it is going to have any positive effect. It WILL have a negative effect, as FreeBSD would gather the reputation of very vindictive; it's even very likely that, somewhere along that road, a lawsuit over some wording would arise. You just can't get what you want all the time. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include C & Java programming, FreeBSD, chuckr@picnic.mat.net | electronics, communications, and signal processing. New Year's Resolution: I will not sphroxify gullible people into looking up fictitious words in the dictionary. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message