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Date:      Fri, 08 Jun 2001 18:16:33 -0400
From:      "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pfg1+@pitt.edu>
To:        freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: BSD direction/Damonnews article
Message-ID:  <3B214EC1.B979899D@pitt.edu>
References:  <20010604200851.A65559@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <3.0.6.32.20010608140211.00ae4470@mail85.pair.com> <3.0.6.32.20010608153126.00f7d7e0@mail85.pair.com> <3B21407C.2B9E8D6D@pitt.edu> <15137.18457.765347.530729@guru.mired.org>

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Mike Meyer wrote:
> 
...
> 
> People wearing developers hats don't get to make decisions about the
> financial future of the company, so your recommendation is
> ineffective. Go to the root of the problem, and convince the people
> making those decisions that if they don't have developers, they don't
> have control of the development of the product - which pretty much
> spells death for the product.
> 
Yes my solution is ineffective, although developers have more
influence on the decision than you think. Your solution is impossible
to implement (MBAs never see the real problems nor do they want to see
them) and, on the other hand, the people taking the decisions are
actually the ones that deserve to be punished for choosing the GPL in
the first place.

Pedro.

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