From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 14 23:36:38 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02D5416A4CE for ; Fri, 14 Jan 2005 23:36:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: from imo-d21.mx.aol.com (imo-d21.mx.aol.com [205.188.144.207]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7588D43D1F for ; Fri, 14 Jan 2005 23:36:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Freebsd0101@aol.com) Received: from Freebsd0101@aol.com by imo-d21.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v37_r3.8.) id n.67.3c455a91 (16633) for ; Fri, 14 Jan 2005 18:36:35 -0500 (EST) From: Freebsd0101@aol.com Message-ID: <67.3c455a91.2f19b183@aol.com> Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 18:36:35 EST To: questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: 9.0 for Windows sub 5116 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: Re: Kris' World X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 23:36:38 -0000 In a message dated 1/14/05 5:56:01 PM Eastern Standard Time, kris@obsecurity.org writes: >> Why are you abandoning support for new hardware in 4.x >> when you admit that 5.x is not ready? It makes no sense at all. >Jamie, you have a fundamental lack of understanding about how the >FreeBSD community works. Unfortunately, this isn't something that can >be explained to someone like you, because you have your own fixed >ideas about how you think the world works and are not willing to >listen to any explanations of how reality differs. ----- I know how linux, windows, openbsd and every other major open source project works, and I know how FreeBSD used to work. I don't know of any other "open source" project that abandons its best version to spend 2 years working on a re-write. I dont know of any other project that works like that. How about a list of projects with an installed base similar to FreeBSD that "works" like that?