Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 10:18:31 -0500 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> To: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Where is FreeBSD going? Message-ID: <20040107151831.GA666@online.fr> In-Reply-To: <p0600202cbc21a025d480@[10.0.1.4]> References: <20040107041307.GA1674@online.fr> <p0600202cbc21a025d480@[10.0.1.4]>
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Brad Knowles said on Jan 7, 2004 at 12:55:25: > At 11:13 PM -0500 2004/01/06, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > > So Matt was easy with newbies and aggressive with other developers. > > There was much more fallout from that than you indicate. Being > pissy with other developers meant being pissy in general on the > -current mailing list, I follow -current quite a lot, and I only ever saw one example where he lost his cool. I don't know about -developers, private mail, etc. I took the "official" explanation at face value back then. I no longer do. It looks more like he was at the wrong end of a personality clash. These things happen and this by itself wouldn't be so bad, but it comes together with everything else in the past year or two. > Personally, I would like very much to see Matt return to the > FreeBSD project Not likely, he has his own space now which is for the best and his project looks exciting. And when he recently commented on -current on the dynamic /bin issue and gave his ideas on how one can use ipc to implement nsswitch in static binaries, he got jumped on by Scott Long. Rahulhome | help
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