Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 10:52:15 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty) Cc: jdw@wwwi.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: IP bugs in FreeBSD 2.1.5 Message-ID: <199610171752.KAA06027@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199610170542.WAA01398@rah.star-gate.com> from "Amancio Hasty" at Oct 16, 96 10:42:55 pm
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> > > "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.
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