From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 17 10:49:17 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA16295 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 17 Oct 1996 10:49:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rocky.mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA16283 for ; Thu, 17 Oct 1996 10:49:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.mt.sri.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA18866; Thu, 17 Oct 1996 11:44:47 -0600 (MDT) Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 11:44:47 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199610171744.LAA18866@rocky.mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams To: Terry Lambert Cc: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams), jkh@time.cdrom.com, jehamby@lightside.com, jsigmon@www.hsc.wvu.edu, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.2.x release question In-Reply-To: <199610171739.KAA05971@phaeton.artisoft.com> References: <199610170423.WAA15646@rocky.mt.sri.com> <199610171739.KAA05971@phaeton.artisoft.com> Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk [ Me breaking the tree in the name of 'progress', but passing off the responsibility of fixing it on others. ] > > Needless to say, this attitude won't buy me any friends. > > Nonsense. I fully support you, if you can show that this is truly "the > right direction". I kind of doubt you can do that, but I'm willing > to give you the benefit of the doubt. It *is* the right direction, but it might not be the 'best' implementation. (As a matter of fact, it isn't. :) Doing things for the 'right reason' is *rarely* a good way to run a business. > We all know that true progrees comes only trough revolution, not evolution; > if we didn't believe this, we'd all be doing our research SCO, since > their CDROM is $20 cheaper than the FreeBSD CDROM. And the fact that you can't do research w/out access to source code makes it almost wholly impossible. Nate