Re: The Trolling on the freebsd- lists

[Paul Robinson <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Dillon wrote:

>    Just a note... I would request that if anyone who reads this list is
>    responsible for or knows the person who is responsible for the trolling
>    that is going on on the freebsd lists, to please stop or ask the person
>    responsible to stop.   While it is certainly true that I have major
>    issues with certain FreeBSD developers, and the path FreeBSD development
>    has taken, the sort of trolling that is going on is damaging the wider
>    interests of Open Source in general as well as the many end-users
>    and many other developers who contribute to FreeBSD, and all the BSD's,
>    including DragonFly are poorer for it.

I am not responsible, nor do I know who is. But the person who started 
the "Where is FreeBSD going?" thread had some valid points, and if it is 
a troll, it's the first one I've seen that is in fact accurate. Those of 
us still running FBSD waiting for DF to get to the point where we can go 
to our management and suggest a migration, well, we're not seriously 
considering 5.x for anything useful right now. The points made, although 
personal, are valid. I don't think you should be getting involved in 
censoring those over there, and I only hope that you, unlike -core, 
actually listen to the sysadmins and end users in the future before 
going off and doing something mad. :-)

I agree though, it may put you and DFBSD into a bad light with the way 
it has been done. There were better ways of doing it.

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Paul Robinson