From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jan 20 16:14: 6 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 98AFA37B401 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 16:14:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from digiflux.org (43.Red-80-59-151.pooles.rima-tde.net [80.59.151.43]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FD4543ED8 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 16:14:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from olivas@digiflux.org) Received: from sentinel (sniffy [10.0.0.150]) (authenticated bits=0) by digiflux.org (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h0L0DvIF006412 for ; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 01:13:57 +0100 (CET) From: "Stacy Olivas" To: Subject: RE: GCC as a selling point for FreeBSD? (Not!) Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 01:13:24 +0100 Message-ID: <001d01c2c0e1$e9c80690$0502000a@sentinel> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <20030121000329.GA54512@acidpit.org> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Importance: Normal 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... I'm no advocate for him either (I too do not know him at all)... But you are right, it is funny how one person is able to get a lot of stuff posted about them.. > > 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_. From my understanding that is why the mailing lists are "wide open", so that the average joe can try to give something back with out having to pound out some code. (That's also why you see tons of spam on these lists). Can we now end this topic before it turns into another 400+ message long discussion on GNU/GPL?? Pllllleeeeeaaaaaaaaaasssssssssssseeeeeeeeeeee!!!! :) > -- > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message