Old perl-based script to manage ports

Mark Linimon linimon at lonesome.com
Thu Jan 19 22:32:48 PST 2006


On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 04:06:07PM -0600, Mark Linimon wrote:
> 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 owe Michael a terrible apology.  The email that I had this impression
from is indeed a misattribution:

  On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 10:14:22PM -0700, Vizion wrote:
  > [Michael C. Schultz wrote]:
  > > portsmon is your software, and keeping it hostage to changes in
  > > ports is IMO unethical.
  >
  > As I have pointed out elsewhere I think Mark's accusation is both
  > unfair and totally unwarranted - it only diverts attentions from some
  > good point that he makes.

Michael's text is the latter sentence and Vizion's text is the former,
but a careless misreading led me to assume the opposite.  Carefully
rechecking the thread (and private emails) confirms my mistake.

I really screwed up on this one big-time, folks, and I'm sorry about that.
This is especially embarrasing in an email talking about how the community
members need to work together.

red-faced,

mcl


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