Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 08:00:06 -0800 (PST) From: Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs/31271: rl(4) discourages vender openness by disparaging remarks. Message-ID: <200111271600.fARG06O43712@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR docs/31271; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr> To: "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@blarg.net> Cc: Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.org>, FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/31271: rl(4) discourages vender openness by disparaging remarks. Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 17:58:56 +0200 > State-Changed-From-To: open->analyzed > State-Changed-By: murray > State-Changed-When: Mon Nov 5 01:21:58 PST 2001 > State-Changed-Why: > Does anyone else have an opinion on the subject? Should we keep this > text or tone it down a bit? I'm not even going to dare bring this up > with the driver author (wpaul) for fear he will take the opportunity > to add even more colorful language to describe RealTek. ;) I think that we should try to avoid making nasty remarks about hardware vendors. I mean, in our lists, in the archives, it's probably OK, but in documentation that is shipped with FreeBSD, it's kind of embarrassing. -giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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