From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Aug 2 21:55:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from eagle.phc.igs.net (eagle.phc.igs.net [207.210.17.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E239F15060 for ; Mon, 2 Aug 1999 21:54:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eagle@eagle.phc.igs.net) Received: (from eagle@localhost) by eagle.phc.igs.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA06582; Tue, 3 Aug 1999 00:54:01 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from eagle) Message-Id: <199908030454.AAA06582@eagle.phc.igs.net> Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 00:54:00 -0400 (EDT) From: eagle@phc.igs.net Subject: Re: Just who is Terry Lambert? To: grog@lemis.com Cc: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19990731092038.L56925@freebie.lemis.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 31 Jul, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Saturday, 31 July 1999 at 0:22:20 +0200, Christian Weisgerber wrote: >> I guess asking that question here isn't the height of tact, but asking >> behind a person's back isn't either. >> >> Just who is Terry Lambert? > > To quote one opinion: > >> From: Michael Smith >> Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 11:50:19 +1030 (CST) >> >> Hmm. Listening to your litany of physical complaints, I have this >> vision of you as a brain in a little clear plasic box, probably with >> an ethernet jack somewhere. > > (end quote) > >> According to my copy of the FreeBSD handbook, he's not part of the core >> team. In fact, he isn't even listed as a committer. Which makes me >> wonder just what backs up his voice of authority. >> >> I'm increasingly suffering from the impression that I'm dealing with an >> intellectual version of Brett Glass. If I'm doing Terry injustice, I'd >> prefer to be told. > > You're doing Terry injustice. Terry is one of the fathers of FreeBSD, > even if, as you observe, he's not a committer. Let's say that there > were certain differences of opinion. That doesn't lessen Terry's > contribution, though: without him, there probably wouldn't be a > FreeBSD as we know it. > > Greg > -- > See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers > finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > If i don't have my history all screwed up again. Terry Lambert was one of the people behind the patchkit stuff.. If I am wrong PLEASE set me straight. Rob To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message