Old perl-based script to manage ports

[Michael C. Shultz]

On Thursday 19 January 2006 14:06, Mark Linimon wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 10:41:42 -0800, "Michael C. Shultz" 
<ringworm01 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I would be ashamed to take credit for someone else's work.  I see by
> > your website you have no such standards and are perfectly willing to
> > take credit for someone else's work [ ... ] Why someone would choose
> > to steal the name of another person's software project is beyond me,
> > but for some reason Mr. Farley here thinks it is an acceptable practice,
> > I do not.
>
> This is the second time that I know of that you've accused someone in
> the FreeBSD community of having questionable ethics (for those following
> along at home, I was the first.  I was willing to put that aside as a
> mistake.)
>
I never accused you you idiot, you mis read the email thread.  I just accepted 
the blame because you were loosing it and saw no reason for you to go off on
the person who really said it.  That said, because you are an official from 
FreeBSD and choose to let others steal my work my participation is FreeBSD is
through.  You no longer have my permision to include portmanager as part of 
FreeBSD.

-Mike



> Whether or not Sean came up with the name independently or not is of
> less concern to me than how you approached the problem.  Rather than
> asking nicely whether or not he would rename his script to mitigate
> user confusion, you instead decided to respond with a personal attack.
>
> For FreeBSD to make progress, the entire community has to work well
> together.  Part of this, to me, implies assuming the best about people,
> not the worst.  (It was always clear to me from Sean's context that his
> was independent work.  I believe a reasonable person could read it the
> same way.)
>
> Frankly, if your approach is to assume the worst about people and attack
> them if they don't fall exactly in line with your views, then you are
> more of a liability than an asset to this community -- no matter what
> the otherwise good value of your contributions.
>
> I think you need to step back and evaluate how you interact with other
> people on this project and decide how you want to proceed.  It might well
> be that you would be happier elsewhere.
>
> mcl