on 21/09/2010 15:36 Vadim Goncharov said the following: > Hi Andriy Gapon! > > On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 14:39:53 +0300; Andriy Gapon wrote about 'Re: HEADS UP: > FreeBSD 6.4 and 8.0 EoLs coming soon': > >>> The Project is ultimately about the users, right? There are early signs that >>> some old FreeBSD users get tired from those changes, those removals, lesser >>> POLA adherence, marketing-not-technical-stuff for time-not-feature-based >>> releases, not so stable -STABLE as it used to be, and so on, migrating to >>> other systems. And older users are more valuable to project than newer ones. >>> May be it's time to revert to some of thet Old Good Things, if decade-long >>> project is mostly ended, while those signs are still early and not a strong >>> tendency?.. Given this thread, I've mentioned earlier about 12 messages in >>> announce@ from 2002 with such public calls for volunteers - there are >>> several >>> years already without these. >> Hmm, it's really simple. >> If you want to shape the future of the project, then participate in the >> places >> where the future is shaped. If you want to know what's coming up in the >> future, >> then watch the places where the future is shaped. If you don't do either, >> you get >> what you get. Complaining post factum just doesn't work. (Numerous other >> examples and projects also demonstrate that). >> "Current", "stable" are not some alien versions of FreeBSD for some other >> strange >> people to use. >> Those are your future releases. >> Not looking into the future has its benefits - you are not doing anything; >> but it >> has costs too - you don't know your future. >> Looking into the future and shaping it has obvious costs, but the benefits >> are >> clear too. >> Business users and old FreeBSD users should know this best of all. >> It's strange that you try speak on their behalf but do not seem to realize >> these >> simple things. > > The essence of your words and your position in other letters is: > > "We are an open source project exactly the same kind like many others: > we have no [moral] responsibility to our users, we are selfish and want only > your code; give us your code and you will have the right to freedom of > speech, > otherwise you're an untermensch".
Please don't put your words into my mouth. I've said what I've said. Your interpretations do not interest me. Have a good life. -- Andriy Gapon _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
