Date: Tue, 03 Mar 1998 21:56:56 -0800 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis <jonny@coppe.ufrj.br>, Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG, ahasty@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is it just me, or are people forgetting how to write mail? Message-ID: <199803040556.VAA04325@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 04 Mar 1998 13:30:44 %2B1030." <19980304133044.02088@freebie.lemis.com>
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> Aha. Care to comment on what kind of feeling? I if have to summarize in one word: passion. Me thinks that as we progress our user install based is getting complacent , lacks passion , and does not like to engage on active development somewhat akeen to a TV couch potatoe culture. The other sprectrum is the culture that grabs FreeBSD and runs like hell not necessarily because they don't want to participate rather because they get entrol in their own projects or visions 8) The latter goes way back to when I polled the group just curious for I felt that the activities around the OS where suspiciously quiet. Found out 1. a user complaint that he didn't have enough virtual memory to create his digital elevation map of the planet, others were doing jet design, radar control, neural-network research, OSF complained that X back then was not doing 1280x1024 and they really needed that for testing, etc... I do see a great surge to communicate or the need to be heard that by itself is rather interesting if you are into providing technology 8) Regards, Amancio To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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