From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Feb 5 20:31:10 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B077F37B401 for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 20:31:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from seed.net.tw (sn15.seed.net.tw [139.175.54.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6D4D43F93 for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 20:31:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from leafy@leafy.idv.tw) Received: from [211.74.135.112] (port=49313 helo=leafy.idv.tw) by seed.net.tw with esmtp (Seednet 4.10:3) id 18gdgp-0007rd-00 for freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 06 Feb 2003 12:31:07 +0800 Received: from leafy.idv.tw (nobody@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by leafy.idv.tw (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h164V64F026426 for ; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 12:31:07 +0800 (CST) (envelope-from leafy@leafy.idv.tw) Received: (from leafy@localhost) by leafy.idv.tw (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h164V6n4026423 for freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 12:31:06 +0800 (CST) Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 12:31:06 +0800 From: leafy To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: patchset 2 report (billh's resignation) Message-ID: <20030206043106.GA9684@leafy.idv.tw> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20030206021823.GB4193@gnuppy.monkey.org> <20030206040515.GA4682@gnuppy.monkey.org> <994960000.1044505320@aslan.btc.adaptec.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=big5 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <994960000.1044505320@aslan.btc.adaptec.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message