Old perl-based script to manage ports

Michael C. Shultz ringworm01 at gmail.com
Thu Jan 19 23:15:23 PST 2006


On Thursday 19 January 2006 22:32, Mark Linimon wrote:
> 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

Just to set the record straight, neither of those comments are mine  according 
to the achives at freebsd.org.

If this post is your apology Mark, fine consider it accepted.

-Mike




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