Russell Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
><judgement-call>Basically, Dan has hacked off Donnie Barnes one too
>many times. He has some technical issues, such as the difficulty of
>moving a qmail queue from one machine to another, and that qmail
>doesn't log enough to make configuration problems obvious. But mostly
>he doesn't want to deal with Dan's personality, to the point that he
>thinks that nobody will believe anything negative Dan says about
>Redhat.</judgement-call>
Likewise, Donnie has hacked off Dan one too many times. I don't know
Donnie, but what I've seen of Red Hat Linux doesn't overly impress
me. On the other hand, I find Dan's work very impressive. Not perfect,
by any means, but far more intelligent, coherent, and robust than
anything Red Hat has produced.
>That happens far too often, Dan. Dozens of people feel the same way
>as Donnie. To win an argument and lose a friend doesn't scale.
>Friends are finite in number; disagreements are not.
It should be obvious to all by now that Dan's not trying to win a
popularity contest. He's doing things his way, and people who like the
way he does things are welcome to share the fruits of his labor. Can't
we all just agree that qmail (and the DJBist philosophy) aren't for
everyone, and that trying to change that is very unlikely to succeed
but sure to annoy almost everyone here?
>Since Redhat doesn't care anymore, and there's no longer a possibility
>of Redhat shipping qmail, there's no point in arguing the UID in
>binaries problem.
Agreed.
-Dave
