Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 13:02:09 -0700 From: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com> To: jessemonroy@email.com, jessem@livecam.com Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [jkh@osd.bsdi.com: ANNOUNCE: Status update on ftp.freebsd.org A KA ftp.freesoftware.com] Message-ID: <20010503130209T.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: <200105031939.MAA12912@dnull.com> References: <20010503120544M.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> <200105031939.MAA12912@dnull.com>
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> Funny thing is I already know of this. Then you have no excuse for such ridiculous chains of innuendo involving them. I often have to wonder at what your genuine motives are. > Please stop this line. That's not very good grammar, but I'll take it to mean that you would like an end to conspiracy theories. That would be great, and an item high on my own wish list. > 1) Word is already out that the domain freesoftware.com has been > sold. Can you confirm this? I can confirm that whomever's telling you this is completely uninformed. We've never even raised the question of selling it, much less having sold it, so there must be a new flavor of crack on the street or someone is going out of their way to start malicious rumors. > 2) Speculation exists that FreeBSD is only making release to > generate cash, not because any real changes apply to the software. Speculation also exists that you may be a space alien yourself and are intent on taking over this planet by first befuddling the dominant species so much with your theories that they become unable to defend themselves. Such speculation would probably not have much to do with the truth, however, and it earns you little dignity to even bring up an accusation this lame. Anyone who's even remotely capable of reading release notes or following the commit logs can see that FreeBSD is making a lot of changes to their software and show no signs of slowing down. Conversely, people can also expect that aliens capable of crossing interstellar space would be smart enough to simply stomp the planet flat in 10 minutes with advanced weaponry and wouldn't need you to walk point for the invasion force. QED. > 3) Speculation that the machine (aka ftp.freesoftware.com) was > lost because it never really belonged to FreeBSD. See above. The machine is still sitting right where it used to be (well, last I checked, the crime rate being rather high in New York) and all it suffers from is a lack of bandwidth, which I've already explained. Anyway, I think I've debunked enough insane rumors for one day. I'm going to lunch at my favorite chinese restaurant. I hear the poodle chow mein they're serving today is especially good! - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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