Date: Sun, 31 May 1998 19:39:31 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Kevin Street <street@iname.com>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, dfr@nlsystems.com, mike@smith.net.au, rminnich@Sarnoff.COM, doconnor@gsoft.com.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Star Office Installation Message-ID: <199806010239.TAA25205@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 31 May 1998 19:18:43 PDT." <9120.896667523@time.cdrom.com>
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Sorry, Jordan I differed with your opinion. We are obviously at a stage that we need to increase our coverage and in my opinion getting Star Office to work on FreeBSD is a good goal so the motivation factor is there. Again, it would be nice to know the root of the lethargic-ness in this mailing list --- that is fixing Star Office is not the problem rather the non responsiveness in the mailing list is the problem. Having one of the well known hackers tackle the problem is not the best way to go for that is creating the "dominant hacker" syndrome. It is sort of like survival of the species and in our case it should be survival of the FreeBSD herd not so much of the hacker. Requesting censorship on the voice of reason is not an option if anything the useless thread on Star Office should have been steered in a more pro-active fashion. Perhaps you like to hear that Star Office has problems over and over on the list . Who knows maybe someone in the list would care to make a song out of the theme... "FreeBSD (Houston ), we have a problem" The only problem around here with the aboe is that there is no Mission Control in Houston to answer your distress call . "FreeBSD, we have a Problem" Later, Amancio > > Now, I am really curious as to why people are not trying to fix > > the linux emulation layer related problems with respect to Star Office. > > So fix it already! You have commit privileges. Saying "I'm really > curious why someone isn't doing the work" has never been a successful > motivational technique for getting work done around here. If anything > I'd say the irritation it induces tends to lead people *away* from > doing whatever it is you're whining about because now you've made it > less than enjoyable to do so - you're doing it only because someone's > trying to goad you into it. > > Or, to put it somewhat more succinctly: Put up or shut up, Amancio! :-) > > - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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