From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Nov 27 8: 0:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4246C37B417 for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 08:00:06 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fARG06O43712; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 08:00:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 08:00:06 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200111271600.fARG06O43712@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Cc: From: Giorgos Keramidas Subject: Re: docs/31271: rl(4) discourages vender openness by disparaging remarks. Reply-To: Giorgos Keramidas Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR docs/31271; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Giorgos Keramidas To: "Gary W. Swearingen" Cc: Murray Stokely , FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/31271: rl(4) discourages vender openness by disparaging remarks. Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 17:58:56 +0200 > State-Changed-From-To: open->analyzed > State-Changed-By: murray > State-Changed-When: Mon Nov 5 01:21:58 PST 2001 > State-Changed-Why: > Does anyone else have an opinion on the subject? Should we keep this > text or tone it down a bit? I'm not even going to dare bring this up > with the driver author (wpaul) for fear he will take the opportunity > to add even more colorful language to describe RealTek. ;) I think that we should try to avoid making nasty remarks about hardware vendors. I mean, in our lists, in the archives, it's probably OK, but in documentation that is shipped with FreeBSD, it's kind of embarrassing. -giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message