From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 22 15:44:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA06591 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 22 Jan 1997 15:44:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from rocky.mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA06583 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 1997 15:44:45 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.mt.sri.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA27480; Wed, 22 Jan 1997 16:41:00 -0700 (MST) Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 16:41:00 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <199701222341.QAA27480@rocky.mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams To: Terry Lambert Cc: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams), jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Commerical applications (was: Development and validation In-Reply-To: <199701222319.QAA22372@phaeton.artisoft.com> References: <199701220514.WAA23918@rocky.mt.sri.com> <199701222319.QAA22372@phaeton.artisoft.com> Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > > I think you're working from a misperception. The core team doesn't > > > > spend its time sitting around rubbing its collective hands together > > > > and going "Mooohahahaha! POWER!" so it's not likely to consider this > > > > in terms of power loss so much as it is in terms of how much workload > > > > is generated. > > [ ... ] > > Nate writes: > > Umm, I think you are working from a misperception. The core team > > doesn't have anything to do with determining the 'workload' of FreeBSD. > > Jordan is talking in terms of workload generated. If you don't like > the assumptive framework, talk to Jorden. I'm just responding in the > framework that has been established. No, he stated that having people 'vote' on what features should be in FreeBSD is only going to affect the core member by generating more work for them if the voting is more than something to make the users feel better about 'controlling' FreeBSD. It has nothing to do with a 'framework' or any other social organism. Nate