Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 09:20:39 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Just who is Terry Lambert? Message-ID: <19990731092038.L56925@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <7nt8is$2dlv$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de>; from Christian Weisgerber on Sat, Jul 31, 1999 at 12:22:20AM %2B0200 References: <7nt8is$2dlv$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de>
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On Saturday, 31 July 1999 at 0:22:20 +0200, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > I guess asking that question here isn't the height of tact, but asking > behind a person's back isn't either. > > Just who is Terry Lambert? To quote one opinion: > From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> > Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 11:50:19 +1030 (CST) > > Hmm. Listening to your litany of physical complaints, I have this > vision of you as a brain in a little clear plasic box, probably with > an ethernet jack somewhere. (end quote) > According to my copy of the FreeBSD handbook, he's not part of the core > team. In fact, he isn't even listed as a committer. Which makes me > wonder just what backs up his voice of authority. > > I'm increasingly suffering from the impression that I'm dealing with an > intellectual version of Brett Glass. If I'm doing Terry injustice, I'd > prefer to be told. You're doing Terry injustice. Terry is one of the fathers of FreeBSD, even if, as you observe, he's not a committer. Let's say that there were certain differences of opinion. That doesn't lessen Terry's contribution, though: without him, there probably wouldn't be a FreeBSD as we know it. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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