Old perl-based script to manage ports

[Mark Linimon]

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.)

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