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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!pipex!sunic!EU.net!ieunet!news.ieunet.ie!jkh From: jkh@whisker.lotus.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: What are NetBSD FreeBSD BSD386 differences?? Date: 06 Dec 1993 08:17:09 GMT Organization: Dublin, Ireland Lines: 23 Distribution: world Message-ID: <JKH.93Dec6001709@whisker.lotus.ie> References: <2d96u7$2kf@dorsai.dorsai.org> <vandys.754509609@cisco.com> <2dpdch$7i4@dorsai.dorsai.org> <2dtd7u$1iv@dorsai.dorsai.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: whisker.lotus.ie In-reply-to: crawls@dorsai.dorsai.org's message of 5 Dec 1993 14:36:30 -0500 In article <2dtd7u$1iv@dorsai.dorsai.org> crawls@dorsai.dorsai.org (Charles Rawls) writes: It is the duty of a person who has been down the road to help others find their way. His actions were just out and out selfish. Actually, be careful here - nothing gets up the nose of the folks doing all this work, be it for 386BSD, FreeBSD or NetBSD, than to hear something like "it is your DUTY to xxxx." I realize that you were probably talking more about the advanced users than the implementors, but it's still fighting words when you assert that it's anyone's duty on the net to do anything for you. Remember that people are doing almost all of this for free, be it contributing software or taking time to answer newbie questions, and don't assume that this somehow obligates them to do it. Ask nicely, and above all realize that you're getting free advice/software/time that should be appreciated as much as would a donation of money during hard times. Just because someone is unwilling to hand you $5 when you ask for it on the street is no reason to shout abuse after them. Jordan -- (Jordan K. Hubbard) jkh@violet.berkeley.edu, jkh@al.org, jkh@whisker.lotus.ie