Date: Sat, 8 Feb 1997 15:34:55 -0800 From: "M.R.Murphy" <mrm@Mole.ORG> To: ben@narcissus.ml.org, dean@av8.com Cc: alec@d2si.com, dean@oec.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, pantzer@ludd.luth.se Subject: Re: FTP site Message-ID: <199702082334.PAA12203@meerkat.mole.org>
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> > > Don't you think you are a bit unethical to claim to have a package you > > don't really have? > > Unethical? That makes it sound as if someone is benefitting. And, as I > said, everything necessary is there. > > I think you should rethink your attitude towards free sites -- had I put > the amount of work into this site that the maintainers had, and taken as > many pains as they have to make it user-friendly and intuitive, I would > very much resent people like you coming in and criticizing. Who exactly > do you think you are that FTP sites should conform exactly to your > mistaken idea of what they should be? What's broken here isn't the site, > it's your manners. > > > --Dean > > > > Dean Anderson dean@aV8.com | dean@lpf.org > > We make technology fly! See us for | Stop Software Patents before they > > Networking, Firewalls, WWW and more. | stop you! Contact me for more info > > Check out http://www.av8.com for info | or send mail to lpf@lpf.org > > President | President > > Plain Aviation,Inc | League for Programming Freedom > > > > > > > > Ben > > "You have your mind on computers, it seems." > Given a series of messages like those from dean@aV8.com, should I use rand or rand48 to calculate the probability that anyone reading the FreeBSD lists that were addressed would 1) call upon his company to "make technology fly!" or 2) consider the LPF in the same way they did before. -- Mike Murphy mrm@Mole.ORG +1 619 598 5874 Better is the enemy of Good
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