From owner-freebsd-current Thu Sep 5 16:07:16 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA27161 for current-outgoing; Thu, 5 Sep 1996 16:07:16 -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 QAA27155 for ; Thu, 5 Sep 1996 16:07:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id QAA13979; Thu, 5 Sep 1996 16:06:21 -0700 (PDT) To: Terry Lambert cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Latest Current build failure In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 05 Sep 1996 15:40:22 PDT." <199609052240.PAA10158@phaeton.artisoft.com> Date: Thu, 05 Sep 1996 16:06:21 -0700 Message-ID: <13977.841964781@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > No matter how bad this discussion may irk you, it's better than > causing RichardBSD and TerryBSD and MikeBSD and... I don't see as there's anything I could do to avert such an outcome, assuming the principles were intent on branching off to that degree, and everything I could say in stating FreeBSD's own position has already been said so there's not much more I can say to dissuade them either. I've offered all that's in my "power" to offer, and if you're all waiting for better terms from me before making your decision to split, then all I can say is split now and good luck. You want the keys to the store as a prerequisite to progress and they're just not mine to give out. Jordan P.S. Perhaps my metaphors are flawed here and there, but rather than protest that you *don't* want the keys to the store at all but merely policy/concensus/communism/whatever, please keep in mind that it's only a metaphor by which I'm simply trying to make a point, that point being that that what you want, for whatever reason, you're not going to get nor is any one person empowered to give it to you. You can keep hitting your head against this wall or you can learn to scale it.