Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1999 13:00:35 -0500 From: "Benjamin Greenwald" <beng@lcs.mit.edu> To: "Mark Murray" <mark@grondar.za> Cc: <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Naming branches Message-ID: <199902071800.NAA00673@miris.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <199902070913.LAA43322@greenpeace.grondar.za>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Murray [mailto:mark@grondar.za] > Sent: Sunday, February 07, 1999 4:14 AM > To: Benjamin Greenwald > Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Naming branches > > > > Sarcasm is unlikely to help anyone. > > If you got a little less confrontational, and a little less defensive, > it is very likely that more people will listen to you. Actually, of all the mailings that have been sent out on this subject, I think mine was the least confrontational. I was simply trying to state how I felt about the tendency of the people in this project to discount new ideas as complaints and to discount users who aren't also developers. After all, it is the common users that choose to become the developers. If they end up feeling burned by FreeBSD, they aren't likely to choose to donate to it. They'll just order their free copy of Solaris. At least they'll have someone to call with their problems that won't talk down to them. -Ben Greenwald To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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