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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!news.alpha.net!news.mathworks.com!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!usenet.cis.ufl.edu!caen!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0 - a status report. Date: 5 Nov 1994 17:02:19 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman Montana Lines: 50 Message-ID: <39gdqr$ftc@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <38j31l$6nf@agate.berkeley.edu> <3937bd$l19@masala.cc.uh.edu> <395qr4$msb@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <39a3s8$n16@masala.cc.uh.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: 153.90.192.29 In article <39a3s8$n16@masala.cc.uh.edu>, Woody Jin <wjin@moocow.cs.uh.edu> wrote: >In article <395qr4$msb@pdq.coe.montana.edu>, >Nate Williams <nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu> wrote: >> >>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. > >Well, I read it again, and how did you get this ? Umm, that's a loaded question. Well, suffice it to say that it sounded like flamage to me, and a couple other people as well. If you can pick it out find someone locally to read it and see if they can explain it. Usenet is not the place to explain etiquette. >Maybe you really didn't care :) :) :) Cheap shot. >>The fact of the matter is that to the FreeBSD folks >>ibsc2 emulatin is more important than MSDOS FS support. > >Could you explain why it is so ? Because it is. There's no explanation except the developers gets to do what he wants. >Is it more important because there were lots of request (if so, it is >strange, since I have never seen such requests) ? Or is it because >there is a technical challenge for doing it (if so, why msdos support is >not so technically challenging) ? Who knows. Whatever the developer wants to do he does. He doesn't get paid, so if he feels guilty because the PCFS code is buggy he'll go fix it. Or if he needs the PCFS code, he'll go fix it. Or if he's bored and thinks the PCFS code would be fun to debug, he'll go fix it. (Apologies for the 'he' references above, but at this time ALL of the FreeBSD developers are male that I'm aware of.) Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | FreeBSD dude and all around tech. nate@cs.montana.edu | weenie. work #: (406) 994-4836 | home #: (406) 586-0579 | Available for contract/otherwise work.