From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Sep 12 13:57:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from shell.webmaster.com (mail.webmaster.com [209.133.28.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 188F014BC3 for ; Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:57:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from davids@webmaster.com) Received: from whenever ([209.133.29.2]) by shell.webmaster.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-12345L500S10000V35) with SMTP id com; Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:57:20 -0700 From: "David Schwartz" To: "Brett Glass" , "Jay Nelson" , Subject: RE: Brett or no Brett? Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:57:20 -0700 Message-ID: <000001befd61$6769baf0$021d85d1@youwant.to> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2377.0 In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.19990912134942.04a5d7a0@localhost> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > But, just out of curiosity, why do you disagree with the notion of > egalitarianism -- or at least even-handedness -- where distributions are > concerned? If FreeBSD becomes known as, effectively, the property of > Walnut Creek CDROM, it will almost certainly dampen contributors' > desire to contribute. They will realize that they are working not for the > good of all but -- to a large extent -- for the exclusive benefit > of Walnut Creek CDROM. This would not be a good thing, and therefore the > impediments to the creation of alternative distributions should > be removed. Bluntly, if two things are not equally good, it is not sensible to treat them equally. DS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message