From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 12 19:30:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA12984 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 12 Nov 1998 19:30:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA12979 for ; Thu, 12 Nov 1998 19:30:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chuckr@mat.net) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.1/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA05576; Thu, 12 Nov 1998 22:28:17 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 22:28:17 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey To: Alex Belits cc: Artur Grabowski , Tech1 , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Detailed info on Fail-safe cluster for Freebsd/unixes In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Alex Belits wrote: > > The guy's trying to make a living, and you're not. > > What difference does it make? > > > You don't know the > > quality of either piece of software yet, but attitudes like that are a > > big reason that free software isn't more highly catered to by commercial > > companies. > > > > If you want native versions of things like WordPerfect, then reconsider > > making posts like this. > > If someone wants native version of things like WordPerfect, he should > encourage companies like Corel to do port that software to FreeBSD. BTW, > I have a strong suspicion that Corel will rather accept ARM port of > FreeBSD than any kind of ass-kissing. It's not "ass-kissing", it's respect for someone else's work. I'm not saying you fawn on them, I'm saying that you don't slam their work on the sole reason that they're trying to make a buck from it. There were many reasons to dump on Tech1 (whoever that is) that I'd have been fine with ... like cross posting (which I largely removed, you should have) or posting commercial messages on lists not chartered for such, but jumping on commercial work *per se* is utterly destructive, shortsighted, and wrong. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (NetBSD). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message