From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Feb 18 23:50:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8487A37B503 for ; Sun, 18 Feb 2001 23:50:32 -0800 (PST) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.2/8.11.1) id f1J7oOe95300; Sun, 18 Feb 2001 23:50:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 23:50:24 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Jos Backus Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DJBDNS vs. BIND Message-ID: <20010218235023.A95040@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200102190547.WAA12829@usr05.primenet.com> <3A90CA94.D7CBCB65@softweyr.com> <20010218233916.J28286@lizzy.bugworks.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010218233916.J28286@lizzy.bugworks.com>; from josb@cncdsl.com on Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 11:39:16PM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 11:39:16PM -0800, Jos Backus wrote: > [This is rapidly turning into a bikeshed...] Bullcrap. You are *totally* missing the point. > Again, what's there to maintain? Fix bugs/security problems? Do you not understand the BSD philosophy??? Core code in BSD *must* be hackable by users for *any* reason they care to. If I want to take all the error messages, process them thru `jive' and recompile djbdns with those, I *MUST* be legally able to do so. > I can't help getting the impression that people don't care to give djbdns a > proper look because of the way they perceive its author. Who cares what kind > of personality the author has, as long as the code works and is > well-supported? WE care if it has a license against the BSD philosophy. Period. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) GNU is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message