From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Mar 11 12:45:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from primary.rci.net (mail.rci.net [209.251.132.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D541637B84A for ; Sat, 11 Mar 2000 12:45:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jar@integratus.com) Received: from integratus.com (169.p1.dialup.gru.net [198.190.223.169]) by primary.rci.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA24472 for ; Sat, 11 Mar 2000 15:45:11 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jar@integratus.com) Message-ID: <38CAB056.8ED3662C@integratus.com> Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 15:45:10 -0500 From: Jack Rusher Organization: Integratus, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.36 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Histrionic Ranting... References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dear Hackers, In all of the discussion that has poured forth in the aftermath of the press release concerning the merging of Walnut Creek and BSDI, no one seems to have stated this simple fact: this merger brings an amazing team (back) together to work on the collective product that will be the future of both free and commercial BSD; Karels, McKusick, Leffler, Torek, etc. To my mind there has only been one other group in the last thirty years (Kernigan, Ritchie, Pike, Bach, etc) that has done as much for the state of modern computing. When you add in the value brought to the project by people like Greenman, Hubbard, Fagen, Lehey, and the rest of the FreeBSD team, and then layer on top of that the tremendous resources of the contributing user base, well... it makes me want to send off my resume to see if I can do anything to help--not scream bloody murder. Yours, -- Jack Rusher, Senior Software Engineer | mailto:jar@integratus.com Integratus, Inc. | http://www.integratus.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message