Date: Sat, 29 May 2010 20:48:35 +0200 From: Alexander Leidinger <netchild@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, "C. =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bergstr=F6m?=" <cbergstrom@pathscale.com> Subject: Re: Announcing PathDB Message-ID: <20100529204835.0000028d@unknown> In-Reply-To: <4C013E24.6020204@pathscale.com> References: <4C0108F1.5050004@pathscale.com> <20100529160155.GA3519@anja> <4C013E24.6020204@pathscale.com>
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On Sat, 29 May 2010 23:17:40 +0700 "C. Bergstr=F6m" <cbergstrom@pathscale.com> wrote: > Thordur I Bjornsson wrote: > >> PathScale is slowly open sourcing and porting some of our core > >> software technology and thought the BSD community might be > >> interested in PathDB. Months ago we gave a few FBSD developers You may want to introduce what it is (people which read careful enough may assume it is a debugger) and explain why it is better than the competition. > Can someone in the FreeBSD community please talk with this guy. If=20 > you're going to send a snotty email at least be brave enough to do it=20 > publicly.. He is for sure not one of the FreeBSD committers. Maybe a troll, so it may be better to just ignore him. > fwiw.. I never said free anywhere in my email.. It's assumed testing=20 > has a reciprocal benefit assuming we fix bugs. I've spoken with 5-10=20 > people in the BSD community and most are supportive of our idea.. > They of course wanted the BSD license from the start, but to me this > is a conservative approach which I saw as a win/win.. So honestly am > I on crack? I don't think your offer to relicense is bad, I just think your introduction of it could have been a little bit more verbose (tell the people something to make them want to have a look at it). Bye, Alexander.
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