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Date:      Thu, 6 Feb 2003 00:07:28 -0500
From:      Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr>
To:        John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
Cc:        chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: patchset 2 report (billh's resignation)
Message-ID:  <20030206050728.GA4651@papagena.rockefeller.edu>

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John Polstra wrote:
> Folks, the entire mail exchange between Bill and me can be found
> here:
>
>     http://people.freebsd.org/~jdp/huey/
>
> Draw your own conclusions.

I don't have any conclusions, only a question: is *everyone* at the
top echelons of FreeBSD a complete and utter asshole?  I mean, were
you trying hard to be so stuffy, pompous, condescending and rude to a
valuable developer, or do these things just come naturally to you?
And what exactly did you hope to achieve by posting that
correspondence for all to read?

If this is the attitude of so many old-timers on the project, no
wonder Matt Dillon couldn't get along with them.  I was beginning to
get persuaded by some of the core members' postings that they may have
been justified in removing him, but this makes me rethink.  

I've never met any FreeBSD people in person, I know nothing about any
of them beyond the publicly posted mailing list email and occasional
private mail.  But judging by that record, Dillon is far more polite
and reasonable, and has much better social skills, than most of the
FreeBSD "top brass".

- Rahul

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