The Trolling on the freebsd- lists

Rahul Siddharthan rsidd at papagena.rockefeller.edu
Mon Jan 5 15:39:43 PST 2004


Kip Macy said on Jan  5, 2004 at 14:25:21:
> I think he may be referring to the "Pull Henning Kunt" e-mails on
> -hackers.

And today's mails from "Maxim Hermion". 

> On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Paul Robinson wrote:
> > I am not responsible, nor do I know who is. But the person who started
> > the "Where is FreeBSD going?" thread had some valid points, and if it is
> > a troll, it's the first one I've seen that is in fact accurate. 

If the person thinks so, he can post these points under his own name
rather than modified names of actual committers.  

The mail may have valid points but I can cook up such a mail,
criticising personal contributions and magnifying personal
disagreements, for any large project -- GNU, Linux, NetBSD/OpenBSD,
and surely DragonFly when it grows large enough.

Rahul





More information about the Kernel mailing list