From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Sep 8 17:56:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEBF914DC0 for ; Wed, 8 Sep 1999 17:56:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr02.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA26946; Wed, 8 Sep 1999 17:55:56 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr02.primenet.com(206.165.6.202) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpdAAAzvaqL0; Wed Sep 8 17:55:54 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr02.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA07813; Wed, 8 Sep 1999 17:56:20 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199909090056.RAA07813@usr02.primenet.com> Subject: Re: MS & Linux duopoly To: asmodai@wxs.nl (Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai) Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 00:56:20 +0000 (GMT) Cc: Dom.Mitchell@palmerharvey.co.uk, chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19990908231846.H64229@daemon.ninth-circle.org> from "Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai" at Sep 8, 99 11:18:46 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > This is known for a while now. > > Miguel de Icaza (the gnome lamer^H^H^H^H^H guy) even admitted to write > non-portable code just to favour and push Linux. > > This is EXACTLY NOT the mentatilty the coders on BSD have. Amancio Hasty has been riding herd on a number of projects where such incompatability "fixes" are very common. One response to this is to ensure that -ports patch files get integrated (not just emailed or contributed) back to the project maintainers. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message