Do we need this junk?

Fri Apr 6 22:11:06 UTC 2007

On Fri, April 6, 2007 2:27 pm, Nikolas Britton wrote:
> On 4/6/07, Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des at des.no> wrote:
>> "Nikolas Britton" <nikolas.britton at gmail.com> writes:
>>> Julian Elischer <julian at elischer.org> writes:
>>>> We have a LOT  of old systems running around the world.
>>>>
>>> But the old systems don't need the latest and greatest copy of
>>> FreeBSD! This is why we provide errata / security fixes. The
>>> systems are a static non moving target ???
>>
>> Excuse me?  Who's "we"?
>>
>> Julian, Warner, Scott, Bernd, Giorgios, Wilko, myself and many
>> others who have contradicted you in this discussion are veteran
>> FreeBSD
>> developers with something like a hundred years of industry
>> experience between us.
>>
>> You, on the other hand are just a pathetic little fuck who has
>> repeatedly demonstrated his complete lack of understanding of
>> anything remotely approaching real computers, real software and real
>> life.
>>
>> You do not get to tell us how to run our project.
>>
>> You do not get to say "we".
>
> Read it again dick head, Julian Elischer wrote "we".

Double-check  your mail archive (or just re-read the above, it's all
right there).

The part that DES is rightfully complaining about is this (which you
wrote in reply to Julian, and which DES properly quoted):

"This is why we provide errata / security fixes. The systems are a
static non moving target ???"

If you're going to insult someone, at least spend 30 seconds to make
sure you are in the right about it.  :)

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