Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [Pika-dev] Funding Drive

[Andrew Suffield]

On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 03:02:49PM -0800, Tom Lord wrote:
>     > From: Andrew Suffield <address@hidden>
> 
>     > On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 02:04:31PM -0800, Davide Libenzi wrote:
>     > > >     > 2) The lack of an Arch server (they mean Arch protocol)
> 
>     > > > What a peculiar objection.  Are your evaluators just crazy or did 
> they
>     > > > miss something?   Arch doesn't require an "arch server" because it 
> can
>     > > > use any of a number of more venerable, stable servers which happen 
> to
>     > > > not be arch-specific.
> 
>     > > Here same as above. What they like, is a self-contained system. A 
> system=
> 
>     > > that to expose a repository does not require any extra HTTP, ssh, 
> samba,=
> 
>     > > ftp server running on the machine. I honestly stopped trying.
> 
>     > Nutcases. Take a fish, paint it blue, and sell it to them as a cow. A
>     > good salesman can sell anything to that sort of people, for an
>     > indefinite period of time.
> 
> 
> Seriously.  If I take the evaluators' purported issues seriously, then
> I could satisfy them by including an ftp server in the distro labeled
> as "Arch Super Cool Nifty Server (now with FTP compatability!)".
> 
> I suspect that the feedback you were getting really meant something
> _less_ like "I like self-contained systems" and something _more_ like
> "Please get out of my office without making a fuss.  I honestly don't
> care about this stuff."

Probably even closer to "Please get out of my office without making a
fuss. I don't buy things from people wearing clothes less expensive
than my carpet".

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