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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ufo!octopus!kaleb From: kaleb@octopus (Kaleb Keithley) Subject: Re: 386BSD Participation Message-ID: <1993Jun25.180130.9389@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov> Sender: usenet@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov (For NNTP so rrn will be able to post) Nntp-Posting-Host: octopus.jpl.nasa.gov Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory Not! Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1993 18:01:30 GMT Lines: 58 In article zmola@bert.eecs.uic.edu (Carl Zmola) writes: > >>Press 'n' now to avoid more mindless drivel :-) > > Good advice, I wish I had taken it. You were warned. Kinda foreshadows the rest of your "rebuttal." You are hereby warned again. Press 'n' now! > Managing a software project is difficult, After 10 years developing software professionally, I always wondered why I went home exhausted. Now I know why. Thanks for explaining it to me. :-) >386BSD has always >been a closed door product. That doesn't gel with what Bill Jolitz said. He said "...real people were participating..." I get the impression that you didn't read Bill's post or mine before firing off your rebuttal. >I like this approach. For me it gives me some stability >(even if there are some bugs), as opposed to Linux or other systems where >there is a patch a week. Thanks for sharing your opinion. I happen to like the comparative stability of 386bsd too, if you ignore the patchkits. But we have strayed from the topic. > I really hope that Bill Jolitz was more polite then you make him out >to be, and I also hope you didn't nag him to death. You assume too much. A trite expression about assumptions comes to mind. This confirms my suspicion that you didn't really read my post, because I dind't say anything untoward about Bill in this regard. > Everyone has to make a living, and Giving away your programming >time usually doesn't cut it. Can I quote you on that? :-) I don't recall anyone twisting Bill or Lynne's arm to release 386BSD. For whatever reason or reasons, they chose to do it. The martyr routine is unbecoming. > People are busy, and some people are especially busy. >It would be nice if they could be courteous, but they have no obligation to. Can I quote you on that too? -- Kaleb -- Kaleb Keithley kaleb@devvax.jpl.nasa.gov