Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 18:58:54 -0500 From: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to escalate? ports/159276 - cmake Message-ID: <20110827235854.GA17113@lonesome.com> In-Reply-To: <20110827153529.7faf0c6a@seibercom.net> References: <4E58A6AA.4060805@soumenkov.com> <20110827191049.GC12519@lonesome.com> <20110827153529.7faf0c6a@seibercom.net>
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On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 03:35:29PM -0400, Jerry wrote: > FreeBSD prefers to tell others about how great it is and conveniently > hides its deficiencies. There's been plenty of honest discussion on several public mailing lists in the past 2 weeks that made some good points about what we're lacking. Both committers and non-committers have contributed. > They tend to live by the motto, "Never make anything simple and > efficient when a way can be found to make it complex and inefficient" Nonsense. > and blame Microsoft or the hardware manufacturers for their problems. Our major problem is being understaffed with respect to many of the other OS options out there; and yet, we nearly manage to keep up anyways. I don't remember the last time anyone on this list was blaming Microsoft for doing anything other than making annoying software. mcl
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