From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jun 8 15: 8:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mb1i0.ns.pitt.edu (mb1i0.ns.pitt.edu [136.142.186.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93B8837B405 for ; Fri, 8 Jun 2001 15:08:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pfg1+@pitt.edu) Received: from pitt.edu ("port 1981"@[136.142.89.21]) by pitt.edu (PMDF V5.2-32 #41462) with ESMTP id <01K4J7LFNRY80010DR@mb1i0.ns.pitt.edu> for freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 8 Jun 2001 18:08:22 EST Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 18:16:33 -0400 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" Subject: Re: BSD direction/Damonnews article To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <3B214EC1.B979899D@pitt.edu> Organization: University of Pittsburgh MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Win98; U) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en,pdf,es-CO 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> Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message