Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 22:14:09 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com> To: "Jeffrey D. Wheelhouse" <jdw@wwwi.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: IP bugs in FreeBSD 2.1.5 Message-ID: <558.845496849@critter.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 16 Oct 1996 11:50:26 PDT." <199610161850.LAA05089@wwwi.com>
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In message <199610161850.LAA05089@wwwi.com>, "Jeffrey D. Wheelhouse" writes: >At 08:09 PM 10/16/96 +0200, you wrote: >I was under the mistaken impression that the core team might be >starting to forget that there are users out there. You have made >it clear that in fact it is because you are pretending you don't >have users. Well, it may depend on the meaning you put in the word "users". At work I have "users" that rely on my service. They pay my company (TRW) so they can rely on that service being available. In FreeBSD context I have people who "use" FreeBSD. This is as you can see two different concepts and I think it is important that we know what kind of "users" we talk about. The first kind can tell me what to do, the second kind will have to be contend with whatever catches my fancy. It is obvious from this that if the FreeBSD usercommunity was the source of my income to the extent that my family could survive, then they could tell me what to do, now they can't. Yes, I dream of the day where I can work FreeBSD 14h+ a day, but until the users can&will provide the income I need to pay for food&clothes for my family, that will not happen. Remember, "He who pays the piper calls the tune!" This piper isn't getting paid, so he'll play for the girls instead of evicting rats. Political speeches about the importance of rodent extermination are unlikely to inspire him to do more than clean them out from his own house. You can't really blame him for that, can you ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.
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