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Date:      Thu, 13 Sep 2001 20:51:37 +0200
From:      Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To:        Paul Richards <paul@freebsd-services.com>
Cc:        Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>, Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/pccard pccard.c pcic.c pcic_pci.c pcicvar.h
Message-ID:  <20010913205137.A46805@freebie.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <57650000.1000393838@lobster.originative.co.uk>; from paul@freebsd-services.com on Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 04:10:39PM %2B0100
References:  <200109130826.f8D8QtY18779@freefall.freebsd.org> <1121080000.1000369966@lobster.originative.co.uk> <20010913073210.X30764@curie.physics.purdue.edu> <57650000.1000393838@lobster.originative.co.uk>

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On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 04:10:39PM +0100, Paul Richards wrote:
> --On Thursday, September 13, 2001 07:32:10 -0500 Will Andrews
> <will@physics.purdue.edu> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 09:32:46AM +0100, Paul Richards
> > (paul@freebsd-services.com) wrote:
> >> Can we try and restore a sense of professionalism to the commit logs.
> >> There's been a growing trend to treat them like a chat list.
> > 
> > I am not your company's hired hacker.  I am a human being that
> > wants to show his humor, ability, and expressiveness.  Just
> > because we create a professional operating system doesn't mean we
> > can't have fun while we are at it!  :-)
> 
> Totally agreed. The operating system includes the cvs logs though so a
> "professional operating system" includes "professional cvs logs".
> 

> I think this may be part of the reason that significant research is not
> taking place on FreeBSD. The project just doesn't look "serious" enough for
> the research community to use it as a basis for work (that and a lack of
> stability of the codebase which is essential for comparitive analysis).

Serious enough? Then what is it that makes every odd university use Linux?

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