Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 13:01:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com> Cc: Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.org>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/common boot.c module.c src/sys/boot/forth loader.conf src/sys/conf Makefile.alpha Makefile.i386 Makefile.pc98 kmod.mk src/share/mk bsd.own.mk Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0009071300380.14124-100000@zeppo.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <67905.968356819@winston.osd.bsdi.com>
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> > Yes, well, it's a leadership thing. The reason I began to prefer FreeBSD over > > NetBSD is that it appeared to have it. > > Which is, sadly, only very partially correct. Some problems can > indeed be solved by somebody going "CHARGE!" and then running into the > machine gun fire with a cheering group of soldiers following them. > More often than not, however, the person yelling CHARGE! ends up > running onto the battlefield alone while everyone else hides in their > foxholes and thinks "boy, is HE brave! I sure hope he manages to > knock out that gun before I have to stick my head up again!" > > > I do hear a rising amount of irritation from you, Jordan, about a lot of > > this. > > If you had to deal with the amount of carping I've dealt with from > those who also tend to run away and hide at the first sign of trouble, > you'd be irritated too. I also don't ask for much more than people > coming face-to-face with reality and realizing that we're not in an > ideal world and have neither ideal generals or ideal soldiers on this > particular battlefield. It really shouldn't be that much to ask. Hmm. If you ask me (which you aren't)- you need a break from this. I certainly don't wanna carp at you- I got better use for my time. -matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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