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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet 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 Lines: 20 Message-ID: <yfgn30us5xb.fsf@time.cdrom.com> References: <4paedl$4bm@engnews2.eng.sun.com> <4s8rtp$jsh@fido.asd.sgi.com> <4sej3e$155@dworkin.wustl.edu> <4seo88$fqd@fido.asd.sgi.com> <4sesh4$2ls@dworkin.wustl.edu> <31EDBDA2.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org> <4sp5j4$3lg@hole.sdsu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com In-reply-to: larryr@saturn.sdsu.edu's message of 19 Jul 1996 23:26:28 GMT X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.1 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 -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project