* Marc G. Fournier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):

> On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, Thomas Seck wrote:
> 
>> You have chosen to maintain systems which stretch FreeBSD to its limits
>> and uncover bugs lurking in the code. This is great. But you cannot do
>> so on the one hand and refuse to face the administrative work on the
>> other hand. This does not work. You have the freedom to maintain your
>> own release with all the patches and fixes you need. Why don't you do
>> it? Instead you waste your time with complaining (and you waste my time
>> because I have to read it and think about the replies I am going to
>> send)?
> 
> But, what you miss in here is that picking and choosing which patches to
> use is useless, as it doesn't take into consideration the interactions of
> other patches you don't apply ... or the reliance of future patches that
> would be useful on those patches you don't apply ... if I wanted to
> pick-n-choose patches, I'd run Linux ... I choose to run FreeBSD because
> its an Operating System, not a Kernel with a 101 different distributions

Basically, you want others to do the developing, testing and patching
and keep the complaining part for yourself.

     --Thomas

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