Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 14:53:06 -0800 (PST) From: Mike Hoskins <mike@adept.org> To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sharing files within a cluster Message-ID: <20021211144337.W83455-100000@fubar.adept.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0212111542580.11062-100000@carotid.ccs.lanl.gov>
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First, apologies to the list... I admit I'm an avid BSD Biggot. However, that's a posistion that has formed over time based upon real world experience... On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Ronald G. Minnich wrote: > who cares? You maybe ought to find out why linux is in the name before > spouting. Did you even bother reading the web page or docs? I doubt it. Yes. I stated precisely who may care as well (clarified below), but you did not give me the common courtesy of reading my response before replying. > Your note is the sort of typical nonsense you find on mailing lists > though. So I'll stop here. Don't take personal offense, I believe my point was valid. Namely, some may be turned off by things with specific OS/vendor identifications in the name... I've seen these things hurt both opensource and more closed group projects. (I'm at an ASP going through a potential merger now, so have to deal with some of these types of politics daily.) Now, granted, there's really nothing we can do about that, BUT I think it's fairly obvious to see that names can either hurt or help "community" efforts. That was my point. In general, if I developed something (and it'd likely be under FreeBSD these days unless Solaris' opensource campaign quickly turns around and I need robust threading), I would keep the name as generic as possible. Just a difference of opinion, I suppose... But then if some Linux folks wanted to adopt it, they wouldn't be stuck with FreeBSDfoo. Is that really such a shocking ideology? -- Mike Hoskins This message is RFC 1855 compliant, mike@adept.org www.adept.org/pub/rfcs/rfc1855.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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