Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 22:11:52 +0100 From: "Stacy Olivas" <olivas@digiflux.org> To: <chat@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: GCC as a selling point for FreeBSD? (Not!) Message-ID: <000a01c2c0c8$8f086740$0502000a@sentinel> In-Reply-To: <77el77po2u.l77@localhost.localdomain>
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> Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> writes: > > > Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > > > > > > Brett has used his real main talents in the development > of BSD code more > > > than enough to deserve our tolerance in his choice of > -chat topics. > > > > Eh? What BSD code, exactly, has he developed/contributed? > > I thought that he developed a whole lot of the Virtual Memory code. A > /usr/src/ *.c search finds nothing. A little time at > groups.google.com > found thousands of Brett Glass hits but it left me suspecting > that I was > wrong. I expect that someone who knows better will speak up. > > > > It's not nice to bite the hand that fed you. > > > > Are you suggesting that Kris or other FreeBSD developers were fed by > > Brett's hand? > > > Yes, metaphorically; Kris and any FreeBSD user. Again, I welcome a > believable correction. I really thought that Brett was a sort of > "BSD Developer, Emeritus". > http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/issue/0,4537,349576,00.html Take a look at this article.. and these links as well: http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,555451,00.asp http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/os2001/speakers.html has this: Brett Glass Brett Glass has more than 25 years of experience designing, building, writing about, and crash testing computer hardware and software. A consultant, author, and programmer based in Laramie, Wyoming, Brett obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the Case Institute of Technology and his MSEE from Stanford. He writes and architects software, designs hardware (including chips, embedded systems, and network servers), and has more than 1500 published articles to his credit. He currently writes "Mean Streets," a monthly security column, for BoardWatch magazine. When he's not writing, consulting, speaking, or cruising the Web in search of adventure, he may be playing the Ashbory bass, doing carpentry, teaching Internet courses for LARIAT (Laramie's community network and Internet users' group), cooking up a storm, or enjoying spicy ethnic food. He can be reached at www.brettglass.com/mailbrett.html (no spam please). There are references to him in the "FreeBSD in the Press" as far back as 1999. So the question is: Who is Brett Glass? Well, we know for certain that he definately is one of the most vocal advocates that FreeBSD has .. which is good.. You can find a ton of hits on google with his name attached that have something to do with FreeBSD .. So, that said... what is wrong with someone being passionate about not seeing their favorite OS get sucked into the GPL codebase? Sure, he may piss some people off with his views on the GPL/FSF/RMS, but nobody says you have to agree with him. > Try this one: It's not nice to flame chat-ers because they are not > willing to back up their opinions with contributed code. That sort > of thing is better suited for -hackers. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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