From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jun 19 8:19:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30DF737B409; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 08:19:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: by elvis.mu.org (Postfix, from userid 1192) id 017EFAE162; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 08:19:44 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 08:19:44 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Trish Lynch Cc: Bill Flamerola , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The problem with FreeBSD Message-ID: <20020619151944.GB85935@elvis.mu.org> References: <20020619043457.K464-100000@femme.listmistress.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020619043457.K464-100000@femme.listmistress.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org * Trish Lynch [020619 03:01] wrote: > On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Bill Flamerola wrote: > > > And I'm talking to you, stupid Alfred Perlstein. > > Alfred is an interesting person. He seems to be drunk most of the time, has > > never contributed anything important to the project, yet he likes to flame > > around all the time. > > As someone who has known Alfred a long time, yes, he can be an asshole, he > also does a hell of a lot of work, is willing to do "grunt" work, and > while these aren;t huge projects, he's filled in where needed. That says > so much more for his willingness to actually do something to advance the > project as a whole. I must commend your ability to pretend to stick up for someone and at the same time call them names and belittle their work. The difference between you and I is that I know when I'm being an asshole, you seem to be having a good time being able to blunder about not realizing it for the good part of your life. -- -Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.' Tax deductible donations for FreeBSD: http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message