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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.indirect.com!wes From: wes@indirect.com (Barnacle Wes) Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0 - a status report. Message-ID: <CyrpzE.5DB@indirect.com> Sender: usenet@indirect.com (System Operator) Organization: Internet Direct, indirect.com Date: Sat, 5 Nov 1994 00:14:01 GMT References: <38j31l$6nf@agate.berkeley.edu> <38to0m$k6d@fw.novatel.ca> <3937bd$l19@masala.cc.uh.edu> <395qr4$msb@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <39a3s8$n16@masala.cc.uh.edu> X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 23 Nate Williams <nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu> chided Woody Jin: > However, go back and re-read your article. Although your intent may not > have been to 'flame', the tone of the article made it sound like that > the FreeBSD folks didn't care and were spending our time on things that > were unimportant. Woody Jin (wjin@moocow.cs.uh.edu) wrote: : Well, I read it again, and how did you get this ? I dunno, I got the same feeling when I read it: "Why are you dummies wasting your time on iBCS compatibility and other useless crap when you could be doing what *I* want?" I was incensed at the time, and am still irritated. : Suppose a FreeBSD user complains that something doesn't work. You didn't - you asked for new features to be elevated in priority because *you* want them. If *you* want them, write them yourself and give back to the community! Wes Peters