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welloy writes "In a mail to freebsd-announce Robert Bruce writes that "during the week of September 7th to September 13th, all revenue from purchases at the FreeBSD Mall will be donated to the FreeBSD Foundation to support work being done to improve the fine grained threading in the FreeBSD Kernel, and other improvements needed to make the upcoming 5.2 release a success." The offer also applies to their table at BSDCon. This is a great way to support the FreeBSD project and ensure they have funding to keep up their great work."
The jewel box CDs are CD-Rs with inkjet printed labels? They look pretty damned professional to me. You can't even see where the inkjet paper blends into the actual CD. In fact, I can't tell the difference in CD quality between the latest 4.8 jewel box and the old Walnut Creek jewel boxes.
Methinks you have your facts wrong. Perhaps you're referring to something other than FreeBSD Mall.
A Government Is a Body of People, Usually Notably Ungoverned
You must not have spent much time reading LKML (Linux Kernel Mailing List). It's hardly populated by paragons of politeness (from Linus on down). That's hardly a surprise -- they are there to conduct the serious business of building and enhancing the Linux kernel, and naive questions draw dismissive responses if they are answered at all. So why are people so surprised at the responses they get when they post inappropriately to the equivalent FreeBSD lists?
I've seen it happen again aand again: someone posts an inappropriate question to freebsd-stable, freebsd-current, or some other technical list, and after a few private suggestions to take it to freebsd-questions or freebsd-chat persists in posting. It's usually only then that one of the heavy hitters decides to knock him out of the ring...
As for Matt Dillion, he was given a choice: play by the rules, or leave. He chose the latter. It's no secret that he didn't agree with some of the choices made in FreeBSD 5 development, so it's a good thing that he's decided to channel his considerable talents into creating his own distribution based on FreeBSD 4. Nonetheless, he still is on cordial terms with many of the FreeBSD developers, still runs FreeBSD on many of his machines, still makes bug reports and suggests patches, and so on.
In other words, he shows a lot more class and maturity than guys like you who, sore after some imagined slight, take anonymous pot-shots from the sidelines.