From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jun 7 19:58:46 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA25177 for current-outgoing; Fri, 7 Jun 1996 19:58:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA25170; Fri, 7 Jun 1996 19:58:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id TAA16218; Fri, 7 Jun 1996 19:58:32 -0700 (PDT) To: brian@MediaCity.com cc: phk@FreeBSD.org (Poul-Henning Kamp), karl@mcs.com, grog@lemis.de, hackers@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: PONY UP! (was: The -stable problem: my view) In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 07 Jun 1996 19:43:12 PDT." <199606080243.TAA19029@MediaCity.com> Date: Fri, 07 Jun 1996 19:58:31 -0700 Message-ID: <16211.834202711@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > success and dependencies on FreeBSD that have sent an email to > > -core saying, "Hi, we owe you people something, what can we do for > > you in return ?" > > FreeBSD has long been promoted as free. It is hard for me to imagine > how the word "owe" can be associated with the word "free". But then, > here in the US, I've run into alot of "free" things in which you > really "owe". So perhaps I am out-of-step with the modern meaning > of the word free. I don't think that's what phk intended to say, and if you read that paragraph of his again I think you'll see that he's paraphrasing some ficticious person saything that _they_ feel they owe something. The different is rather stark. > For the benefit of the aged, like myself, perhaps you could > change the name. 8-) Or, for the benefit of those who are poor of eyesight, like yourself, we should simply send out these mailings in larger type. :-) Jordan