Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 12:31:06 +0800 From: leafy <leafy@leafy.idv.tw> To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: patchset 2 report (billh's resignation) Message-ID: <20030206043106.GA9684@leafy.idv.tw> In-Reply-To: <994960000.1044505320@aslan.btc.adaptec.com> References: <20030206021823.GB4193@gnuppy.monkey.org> <XFMail.20030205185810.jdp@polstra.com> <20030206040515.GA4682@gnuppy.monkey.org> <994960000.1044505320@aslan.btc.adaptec.com>
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On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 09:22:00PM -0700, Justin T. Gibbs wrote:
> Bill,
>
> The FreeBSD Foundation is a corporation. It is not politically affiliated
> with anyone. The Foundation decided to expedite the completion of a
> binary release of the 1.4.1 JDK and JRE that FreeBSD users could easily
> install. It chose Alexey to aid in that goal and gave him full permission to
> release any SASL based work back to the FreeBSD Java effort. We could have
> easily switched to using Sun partner only sources and completed this all
> in a back room, and considering your reaction that might have been
> much, much easier. Instead we decided to share this funded work with
> the community so that it could be incorperated into other ports for
> other platforms. That's the whole story. No conspiracies. No politics.
> Just three guys running a non-profit in their spare time, funding things
> they feel will benefit the FreeBSD community. If you don't like what the
> Foundation is doing, don't send us any donations. It's really that simple.
>
> --
> Justin
It's not really that simple, considering the fact that the foundation keeps the name "FreeBSD" and mentioned "community" in the above paragraph. To rule out someone who had done significant work in the discussion is not the correct thing to do, at least not polite. Have we all lost the sense of politeness?
JY
--
"Without the userland, the kernel is useless."
--inspired by The Tao of Programming
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