From: Don Armstrong Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 08:00:00 +0000 (-0800) Subject: import from website X-Git-Url: https://git.donarmstrong.com/?p=don.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=d3ad9d4a5ff64828e7c80c4bbf75a2e3f714942b import from website --- diff --git a/posts/diary/asbestos_flamesuit.mdwn b/posts/diary/asbestos_flamesuit.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5eef1e5 --- /dev/null +++ b/posts/diary/asbestos_flamesuit.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Over the past 24 hours, an interesting set of threads has been going on in [http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel|debian-devel] and [http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal|debian-legal] about the possible inclusion of [http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/|mplayer] in Debian. Well, actually, it was much more of a flamewar that only occasionally touched on the actually inclusion, and spent more time dealing with anciliary name calling and pointless unreferenced performance information. Not like that is all that big of a surprise, considering the [http://216.239.57.100/search?q=cache:ma_D0T3sFhoC:mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-flame/2001-December/000160.html+mplayer+developers+flaming&hl=en&ie=UTF-8|track] [http://www.linuxworld.com/site-stories/2001/1214.mplayer.html|record] of [http://freshmeat.net/projects/mplayer/?topic_id=127%2C128|abuse] leveled at users.\n\nSo that was interesting, until it links to the thread get pasted to [http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/|mplayer's website], and then finally, [http://www.slashdot.org/|slashdot], and the hordes of trolls are unleashed upon debian-devel and debian-legal. One wonders what the ftp masters are going to do considering that the packages have been uploaded to incomming. \ No newline at end of file