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From: summer@ee.mu.OZ.AU (Mark Summerfield)
Subject: cgd's conflict of interest
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Organization: Dept of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, University of Melbourne
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1993 07:54:50 GMT
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Well, I think that it has become quite clearly apparent in the last two days
that Chris definitely has a conflict of interest in moderating .announce.
No, Jesus didn't convince me, Chris convicted himself with his own words.
That's right: moderating c.o.3.announce conflicts with cgd's LIFE!
It is clearly unacceptable that the moderator cannot respond to a request
to do something as obviously vital and urgent as reposting a FAQ which is
available at sites all over the place within the outrageously reasonable
period of a full TWENTY HOURS! I mean, it's not like he was being asked
to announce the discovery of something really trivial like a bug which
causes the entire hard-drive to be erased. God forbid that Chris should
sleep, eat or even breath when he could be doing the bidding of Jesus...
nay, SHOULD be doing the bidding of Jesus. (For the sarcasm impaired, this
whole paragraph is not to be taken seriously!)
Jesus cannot understand the real conflict of interest, and so he blames
it on a conflict between NetBSD and 386bsd. The reason he cannot understand
that Chris' life gets in the way is that Jesus HAS NO LIFE. If Jesus were
to get a life, then he could understand. If Jesus were to get a life then
he would understand a lot of things much better. If Jesus were to get
a life then he would spend a lot less time producing garbage.
Jesus -- GET A LIFE!
And yes, I am unashamedly biased. I am biased towards Chris because it is
through his efforts, and those of people like him (thanks to them ALL!),
that I have an operating system which serves both my work and hobby needs
at a really nice price, with support that few vendors could beat. And I am
biased against Jesus because all he ever seems to produce is partisan,
unreasoned, ungrammatical, incomprehensible noise which gets in the way of
the people who have something useful to contribute. I don't see a lot of
conflict between any of the OS groups. In fact, as far as I can tell the
only reason there is any kind of OS war at all is because Jesus keeps
lobbing hand-grenades into the houses of otherwise peace-loving people.
If Jesus had his way, the *.386bsd.* groups would only contain information
and discussion of the 386BSD OS produced by the Jolitzes. In which case,
he would be the only one in it, because almost all the helpful advice and
useful work for people running 386BSD is provided by people who are now
involved with either NetBSD and/or FreeBSD. Frankly, if Bill and Lynn are
still out there somewhere, they should probably have Jesus shot -- he
really isn't doing their public image any good at all.
Don't consider this a flame, instead consider it as praise for all the people
like Chris who have been doing such good work, and making it available to
others.
I'm glad I got that off my chest!
Mark.
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Mark Summerfield, Photonics Research Laboratory
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Melbourne
ACSnet[AARN/Internet]: summer@ee.mu.oz[.au]
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