From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jul 30 16:53: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E830414E6F for ; Fri, 30 Jul 1999 16:52:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id JAA13677; Sat, 31 Jul 1999 09:20:41 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id JAA64490; Sat, 31 Jul 1999 09:20:39 +0930 (CST) Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 09:20:39 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Christian Weisgerber Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Just who is Terry Lambert? Message-ID: <19990731092038.L56925@freebie.lemis.com> References: <7nt8is$2dlv$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <7nt8is$2dlv$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de>; from Christian Weisgerber on Sat, Jul 31, 1999 at 12:22:20AM +0200 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 > 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