From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jan 20 16: 3:33 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 230F437B401 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 16:03:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from astaroth.acidpit.org (astaroth.acidpit.org [206.190.180.249]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD18543EB2 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 16:03:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rch@acidpit.org) Received: by astaroth.acidpit.org (Postfix, from userid 1200) id BCD9215A43; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 19:03:29 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 19:03:29 -0500 From: Robert Hough To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GCC as a selling point for FreeBSD? (Not!) Message-ID: <20030121000329.GA54512@acidpit.org> References: <20030120141556.E1857@papagena.rockefeller.edu> <77el77po2u.l77@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I wish had as many posts about who I am, as Brett gets - wow! I'm not a BG advocate, don't know the man. I will ask a simple question that has apparently escaped me while reading all of this interesting, babble... What does it matter, what he has contributed to FreeBSD? Does an end user have to contribute something before making suggestions? Yeah, his suggestions do sound more like demands, and his passionate hatred for the GPL does tend to cloud the underlying point to his posts, but that still doesn't negate the fact that he is _right_. -- Robert Hough (rch@acidpit.org) http://www.acidpit.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message