Re: Am I way off base here?

[Garance A Drosihn <drosih@xxxxxxx>]

At 5:22 PM -0500 11/25/03, Skip Ford wrote:
> The behaviour of the FreeBSD folks is par for the course.
> Whenever someone proposes an idea that conflicts with the
> path they've already taken, they pout.  The better the
> idea and the more foolish it makes their chosen path look,
> the higher they raise their bottom lip.

I guess I'll say that I resent that comment.  I have my
own good ideas which I'd like to see implemented which
would address the performance issues.  That doesn't mean
I hate anyone else's good ideas, it just means that I
have a limited amount of free time and I'd like to work
elsewhere.  My ideas may very well suck, but I would
like to *try* them out and see if they are workable.

> And now there's apparently a new rule, whenever someone
> mentions DragonFly they cover their ears and scream loudly
> to make sure they can't hear it.

Well, let's be real here.  The reason DragonFly exists is
that there were a few key FreeBSD developers who were
constantly annoyed with Matt.  Thus, this is not "new",
and it also does not mean that *all* FreeBSD developers
are cold to ideas from Matt.  It just means some people
do not get along.

It should also be noted that Matt nearly got voted to a
position on FreeBSD's core team, so it is pretty
obnoxiously unfair to paint all FreeBSD developers
with any particular coat of paint.

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