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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!gatech!news.ans.net!cmcl2!prism.poly.edu!kapela From: kapela@prism.poly.edu (Theodore S. Kapela) Subject: Re: Status of 386BSD 0.1 Message-ID: <1992Jul16.141101.11762@prism.poly.edu> Organization: Polytechnic University, New York References: <58775@mimsy.umd.edu> <13v74tINNdni@agate.berkeley.edu> <2A634DB3.2723@ics.uci.edu> Date: Thu, 16 Jul 92 14:11:01 GMT Lines: 46 In article <2A634DB3.2723@ics.uci.edu> bvickers@ics.uci.edu (Brett J. Vickers) writes: >wjolitz@soda.berkeley.edu (Lynne Jolitz) writes: >>*valuable* this project is to everyone. I am beginning to see the light. >>In fact, I think Bill and I should reconsider our entire role in doing >>these releases in light of these new inspirational messages. > >Please don't extrapolate the views of a majority of 386BSD users from >the whinings of a few users. I think you'll find that most of us >belong to a silent majority that greatly appreciates your effort >and devotion to this project. I agree. Unfortunately, there are those few who *EXPECT* others to spend so much time doing so much work with no compensation. Ironically, it is these same people that will either: 1) find a bug in a project such as this, fix it, and REFUSE to let others have the patches. (Normally, they won't even tell anyone they fixed the bug). 2) Find a small bug and scream and complain about it until someone else fixes it (Reporting the bug is one thing. Complaining is another). These are also the same people who whine and scream when a release doesn't come out on the exact day they were told it would. I'm sure we can all come up with at least one (more likely *many*) COMMERCIAL packages that were released late. Bill and Lynne: Please ignore the few selfish nits who complain so loudly. It is indeed the silent majority that realizes and appreciates the significant amount of work put into the project. On an aside, I would also like to point out to those who don't read Dr. Dobb's and don't know that there was a 17 part series discussing the project (I suspect this is the majority of those reading this) that they have missed a lot. I personally look forward to future articles from Bill and Lynne Jolitz. -- ............................................................................... Theodore S. Kapela kapela@poly.edu Center for Applied Large-Scale Computing Polytechnic University