The Trolling on the freebsd- lists
Paul Robinson
paul at iconoplex.co.uk
Mon Jan 5 13:25:51 PST 2004
Matthew Dillon wrote:
Just a note... I would request that if anyone who reads this list is
responsible for or knows the person who is responsible for the trolling
that is going on on the freebsd lists, to please stop or ask the person
responsible to stop. While it is certainly true that I have major
issues with certain FreeBSD developers, and the path FreeBSD development
has taken, the sort of trolling that is going on is damaging the wider
interests of Open Source in general as well as the many end-users
and many other developers who contribute to FreeBSD, and all the BSD's,
including DragonFly are poorer for it.
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. Those of
us still running FBSD waiting for DF to get to the point where we can go
to our management and suggest a migration, well, we're not seriously
considering 5.x for anything useful right now. The points made, although
personal, are valid. I don't think you should be getting involved in
censoring those over there, and I only hope that you, unlike -core,
actually listen to the sysadmins and end users in the future before
going off and doing something mad. :-)
I agree though, it may put you and DFBSD into a bad light with the way
it has been done. There were better ways of doing it.
--
Paul Robinson
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