Re: BSource Code Release of NWFS 2.0 for 2.2/2.3/2.4

From: Jeff V. Merkey (jmerkey@timpanogas.com)
Date: Wed Feb 09 2000 - 12:10:55 EST


Al,

Does anything helpful ever some out of your mouth, or just raw sewage?
College professor types always seem to rely on character assasination
when they feel ill-equipped in competitive situations. I'd really like
to meet you face to face sometime and see if your as brave when you
don't have the internet to hide behind. What trade shows are you
planning to go to? Let's get together at one and "talk" about our
relationship problems.

Your friend,

Jeff

>
> Alexander Viro wrote:
> >
> > [sorry for late reply, only now got through the mailbox]
> > >However, we have some legitimate gripes, and I think I really don't like
> > >Pavel Machek, Ingo Molinar, and Al Viro's shitty attitudes towards us
> > >and TRG in general (and that they completely ignore emails and requests
> > >for help in areas they claim to own). If you guys want us to feel like
> > >a part of what you are doing, then I think out of courtesy, when we ask
> > >questions, they should get answered. We are more than happy to **NOT**
> > >publish any more source code for general use by the Linux Community if
> > >our reward for doing so is to be shit on by a some of the Linux career
> > >politicians just because our views are different or that we come at
> > >Linux from different angles.
> > >The "partisan" commercial politics (since a lot of these folks have
> > >gotten sucked up into RedHat, Suse, etc.) are preventing folks from
> > >getting help or participating in the process of developing Linux, and
> > >WILL HURT LINUX AND FRAGMENT THE MARKET. I think all the RedHat stock
> > >and Suse stock everyone now has has gone to some peoples heads. The
> > >partisan politics are destructive to Linux in general, and if RedHat
> > >employees are going to play them, then so can everyone else, including
> > >us.
> >
> > Just one question: what makes you think that I need Redhat-whatever to
> > tell an ignorant luser WTF he is? FYI: I've done that _way_ before not
> > only RH but Linux appeared. I see no reason to treat you any better than
> > I treated VMS duhvelopers who had no clue on UNIX but insisted that
> > they could "write for VAX".
> >
> > BTW, if you will grep the /usr/src/linux/MAINTAINERS you will not find
> > me there. In the code - yes, but not there. And if you can show me a
> > single email where I said that I "own" any part of code - go ahead and
> > do it. Put up or shut up. Yes, I know many things. No, I'm fucking not
> > obliged to do the helldesk work for any fscking NW primadonna with no
> > shred of clue, no desire to learn and no semblance of taste. Told you
> > so, and did that before involvement with RH.
> >
> > FWIC you are a spoiled ignorant brat with ego on steroids. And I've dealt
> > with your ilk since waaay back. Shitty attitude? Bite me. I'm a BOFH, not
> > a nurse. Comes with profession.
> >
> > >I think the next time one of my requests is ignored, we will simply not
> > >publish any more source code, and just let CALDERA customers get access
> >
> > <shrug> So? If I'll need to summon Cthulhu - reading your already published
> > crap aloud will work just as well.
> >
> > HTH. HAND. FOAD. *PLONK*
> >
> > --
> > All that blue light from Orthanc at night? That was Saruman, trying to
> > moderate news.admin.palantir-abuse.sightings.
> > Mike Andrews in the Monastery
> >
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