From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kip Macy Subject: Re: NetBSD port and a couple of remarks Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 16:31:41 -0800 (PST) Sender: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <20040128163116.P68215@demos.bsdclusters.com> References: <20040128132614.A49402@demos.bsdclusters.com> <20040128235938.7f44f970.ak@suse.de> <20040128150607.M49402@demos.bsdclusters.com> <20040129002422.099b7d14.ak@suse.de> <20040128154707.F49402@demos.bsdclusters.com> <20040129001915.GQ23752@work.bitmover.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20040129001915.GQ23752@work.bitmover.com> Errors-To: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: Larry McVoy Cc: xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org My fault. I'm sorry. End of discussion. -Kip On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Larry McVoy wrote: > On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 03:48:24PM -0800, Kip Macy wrote: > > => whoever owns BitKeeper at some point won't sue you, > > > > In light of recent events that is a genuinely compelling point. > > Given that we have shown our committment to the open source community by > turning down overtures from Red Hat, VA Linux, Borland, and multiple VC's, > it's not a compelling point at all. If I was motivated strictly by money > I would have either kept my 3% of Cobalt or kept my position as emp #4 > at Google, either of which would have made me far more money than BK will. > > Money isn't the reason we'd sell out, we would have done that by now, > we've had multiple offers, any one of which would have made me enough > money that I would never have had to ever deal with another mail message > like this one. > > On the other hand, I'm less than thrilled with being, as Kip pointed > out, pointlessly flamed for doing something that has been of tremendous > help no matter how you look at it. I'd appreciate it if the people who > were happy using BK kept on using it and if the rest of the people were > polite enough to air their opinions anywhere but my mailbox. I've done > my part and gotten off of all public lists so I don't bother anyone with > my opinions, it would be oh-so-pleasant if my good friends in Germany > were to return the favor. > -- > --- > Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm > ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn