From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 8 20:42:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from parhelion.firedrake.org (parhelion.firedrake.org [212.135.138.219]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D7B337B407 for ; Wed, 8 May 2002 20:42:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from float by parhelion.firedrake.org with local (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 175ep6-0002Pn-00; Thu, 09 May 2002 04:42:32 +0100 Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 04:42:32 +0100 To: Anthony.Wyatt@csiro.au Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: It's not fun anymore. (Mike resigns from core) Message-ID: <20020509034231.GA9051@parhelion.firedrake.org> References: <4ABEF4D887D40745B8D6804C2FFA939F1A75FF@hermes.la.csiro.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4ABEF4D887D40745B8D6804C2FFA939F1A75FF@hermes.la.csiro.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i From: void Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD is a research project, but it's also a production-quality operating system. It is important that it be "loose" enough to keep hackers interested, but it is also important that it be managed carefully enough that companies like Yahoo (which employs at least one core team member, if I'm not mistaken) can continue to depend on it. I think that the successful management of the tension between these goals has a lot to do with why FreeBSD is so useful and interesting. I guess that these conflicting goals also have a lot to do with the conflicts within core that Mike alluded to. Just my two cents, I hope no one takes offense. I think flamage on this thread is pretty inappropriate and I'd like to respectfully ask everyone to keep things civil, even if only on this thread. -- Ben "An art scene of delight I created this to be ..." -- Sun Ra To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message