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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.development:1356 comp.os.386bsd.bugs:1693 comp.os.386bsd.apps:608 comp.os.386bsd.questions:6414 comp.os.386bsd.misc:1344 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.os.386bsd.bugs,comp.os.386bsd.apps,comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!library.ucla.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!scomm!jan From: jan@filetek.com (Jan Morales) Subject: Re: WILL ???BSD DIE? Message-ID: <CFvGGF.Au0@filetek.com> Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.development Sender: news@filetek.com Organization: FileTek, Inc., Rockville, Maryland, U.S.A. References: <jmonroyCFv39C.Iv1@netcom.com> Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1993 16:00:15 GMT Lines: 42 I laughed through most of Jesus' post but if I were one of the people who have devoted much time and money to this effort I'd be extremely offended. As best as I can tell the people involved in the free *BSD efforts are volunteers (if not 100% then 99.44%) and I am very grateful to them all. I have a BSD system on a PC at home with complete sources and I got it legally and completely free of charge. And it runs *well*. You can't get that at CompUSA. I'm sure there are positive arguments for keeping 386BSD 0.1 around on agate and I'm sure qualified people will make those arguments. But the attitude that you are *owed* anything from these people who are working for free for you is repulsive. If you had come forth and said "I understand that keeping 386BSD 0.1 on-line is straining your resources and I offer to take the 120Mb and make it available from a machine of mine." I would have said "Bravo!" even though I have no personal interest in 386BSD. These people may have personal motives for doing this work (fame, fortune, who knows) but as long as I benefit from the fruits of their labor I won't be looking this gift horse in the mouth. I know I shouldn't but I just couldn't resist the following: In article <jmonroyCFv39C.Iv1@netcom.com>, jmonroy@netcom.com (Jesus Monroy Jr) writes: > From what I can see nearly 1/2 of those involved should > keep there day jobs. The remaining 90% have probabely never seen > the inside of PC, let alone write some serious code for this > overgrown Altair. 50% + 90% == 100% ? I hope you don't spend too much time wondering why people don't take you seriously. [I took a stab at where I thought follow-ups should be directed since our friend Jesus didn't bother to do that for us.] Jan -- Jan Morales Internet: jan@filetek.com FileTek, Inc. UUCP: uunet!fltk!jan Rockville, Maryland, U.S.A.