From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 17 10:54:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA16701 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 17 Oct 1996 10:54:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA16689 for ; Thu, 17 Oct 1996 10:54:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA06027; Thu, 17 Oct 1996 10:52:15 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199610171752.KAA06027@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: IP bugs in FreeBSD 2.1.5 To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty) Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 10:52:15 -0700 (MST) Cc: jdw@wwwi.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199610170542.WAA01398@rah.star-gate.com> from "Amancio Hasty" at Oct 16, 96 10:42:55 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > "CONTRIBUTE, PAY or SHUT UP! (in order of my preference)" > > > > Then you shouldn't call it FreeBSD, because it isn't. You should > > call it "MembersOnlyBSD." > > > > I was under the mistaken impression that the core team might be > > starting to forget that there are users out there. You have made > > it clear that in fact it is because you are pretending you don't > > have users. > > It is a matter of what we can do and the resources that we > have available -- that is all . No it's not. It is the difference between an entrepeneurship (16-22 participants, max) and a small business (100-150 participants, max) and a medium business (1200-2500 participants, max). Linux is a small business. FreeBSD is an entrepeneurship. Linux is currently hitting its limits; so is FreeBSD. Novell has been hitting it's limits for 4 or more years now... (Novell is a medium business with delusions of large business). Microsoft is a large business. It is a matter of organizational limitation, not one of resource limitation. There are *plenty* of people who want to contribute code -- we just don't want you to tell us what code we are permitted to contribute. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.