From owner-cvs-all Thu Sep 7 13: 5:30 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B224F37B424; Thu, 7 Sep 2000 13:05:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zeppo.feral.com (IDENT:mjacob@zeppo [192.67.166.71]) by feral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA29980; Thu, 7 Sep 2000 13:05:24 -0700 Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 13:01:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Jordan Hubbard Cc: Nik Clayton , Warner Losh , "David E. O'Brien" , 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 In-Reply-To: <67905.968356819@winston.osd.bsdi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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