From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 19 22:18:12 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B5F516A41F for ; Thu, 19 Jan 2006 22:18:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ringworm01@gmail.com) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.206]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEA2943D45 for ; Thu, 19 Jan 2006 22:18:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ringworm01@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i31so333537wra for ; Thu, 19 Jan 2006 14:18:10 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=hKDWHjaMKMHIKzFPWTT2oPMxcu72noSrGnD/E01zSu6DE8zCkC0qRFcXVmhBWCXlBJgb0jgMV0EjdBBgLnT4H4oGJ7UKbS3k5u4FMBS4AcvFPO1q9k93U2OpVrma9Tk2A0xIg/8PGtwxkYUXK19Meb1GpxNtOn9c6x2zwRjcKm8= Received: by 10.65.176.5 with SMTP id d5mr972957qbp; Thu, 19 Jan 2006 14:18:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from ringworm.mechee.com ( [71.102.36.221]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id q13sm905288qbq.2006.01.19.14.18.07; Thu, 19 Jan 2006 14:18:09 -0800 (PST) From: "Michael C. Shultz" To: Mark Linimon Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 14:18:02 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <20051212174221.47D0B229E7@mail.droso.net> <20060119220607.GA12244@soaustin.net> In-Reply-To: <20060119220607.GA12244@soaustin.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200601191418.03615.ringworm01@gmail.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, linimon@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Old perl-based script to manage ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 22:18:12 -0000 On Thursday 19 January 2006 14:06, Mark Linimon wrote: > On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 10:41:42 -0800, "Michael C. Shultz" wrote: > > I would be ashamed to take credit for someone else's work. I see by > > your website you have no such standards and are perfectly willing to > > take credit for someone else's work [ ... ] Why someone would choose > > to steal the name of another person's software project is beyond me, > > but for some reason Mr. Farley here thinks it is an acceptable practice, > > I do not. > > This is the second time that I know of that you've accused someone in > the FreeBSD community of having questionable ethics (for those following > along at home, I was the first. I was willing to put that aside as a > mistake.) > I never accused you you idiot, you mis read the email thread. I just accepted the blame because you were loosing it and saw no reason for you to go off on the person who really said it. That said, because you are an official from FreeBSD and choose to let others steal my work my participation is FreeBSD is through. You no longer have my permision to include portmanager as part of FreeBSD. -Mike > Whether or not Sean came up with the name independently or not is of > less concern to me than how you approached the problem. Rather than > asking nicely whether or not he would rename his script to mitigate > user confusion, you instead decided to respond with a personal attack. > > For FreeBSD to make progress, the entire community has to work well > together. Part of this, to me, implies assuming the best about people, > not the worst. (It was always clear to me from Sean's context that his > was independent work. I believe a reasonable person could read it the > same way.) > > Frankly, if your approach is to assume the worst about people and attack > them if they don't fall exactly in line with your views, then you are > more of a liability than an asset to this community -- no matter what > the otherwise good value of your contributions. > > I think you need to step back and evaluate how you interact with other > people on this project and decide how you want to proceed. It might well > be that you would be happier elsewhere. > > mcl