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From: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Getting off the stick [was Re: TCP latency]
Date: 20 Jul 1996 19:20:48 -0700
Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM
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In-reply-to: larryr@saturn.sdsu.edu's message of 19 Jul 1996 23:26:28 GMT
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In article <4sp5j4$3lg@hole.sdsu.edu> larryr@saturn.sdsu.edu (Larry Riedel) writes:
I used to feel good about the BSD community because the people in it
seemed to be less interested in whether or not the number of people
who used their software was more than some other OS, and relatively
[elided - I think this paragraph captures the essence of the posting
fairly well]
I think that this posting manages to miss the point in just about
every significant way. This isn't about counting heads for its own
sake, or trying to make UN*X something it's "not" - this is about
filling in pieces that I and many other BSD afficionados have long
missed, or even do simply because it's part of our personal work-ethic
that any software we release match certain standards for
installability, documentation and so on. This is what drives much of
the progress in FreeBSD, anyway.
Jordan
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- Jordan Hubbard
President, FreeBSD Project