Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 22:28:17 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net> To: Alex Belits <abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us> Cc: Artur Grabowski <art@stacken.kth.se>, Tech1 <tech@scsr.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Detailed info on Fail-safe cluster for Freebsd/unixes Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811122221450.5535-100000@picnic.mat.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.02A.9811121906280.18025-100000@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us>
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On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Alex Belits wrote: > > The guy's trying to make a living, and you're not. > > What difference does it make? > > > You don't know the > > quality of either piece of software yet, but attitudes like that are a > > big reason that free software isn't more highly catered to by commercial > > companies. > > > > If you want native versions of things like WordPerfect, then reconsider > > making posts like this. > > If someone wants native version of things like WordPerfect, he should > encourage companies like Corel to do port that software to FreeBSD. BTW, > I have a strong suspicion that Corel will rather accept ARM port of > FreeBSD than any kind of ass-kissing. It's not "ass-kissing", it's respect for someone else's work. I'm not saying you fawn on them, I'm saying that you don't slam their work on the sole reason that they're trying to make a buck from it. There were many reasons to dump on Tech1 (whoever that is) that I'd have been fine with ... like cross posting (which I largely removed, you should have) or posting commercial messages on lists not chartered for such, but jumping on commercial work *per se* is utterly destructive, shortsighted, and wrong. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (NetBSD). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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