From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Feb 4 11:43:52 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5450D37B401 for ; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 11:43:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from pilchuck.reedmedia.net (pilchuck.reedmedia.net [209.166.74.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D0FE43FA3 for ; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 11:43:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from reed@reedmedia.net) Received: from reed by pilchuck.reedmedia.net with local-esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18g8yi-00006z-00; Tue, 04 Feb 2003 11:43:32 -0800 Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 11:43:32 -0800 (PST) From: "Jeremy C. Reed" To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dillon@'s commit bit: I object In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Larry Sica wrote: > invested in freebsd because i am not a developer. Without ppl like > me, the users, there would be no freebsd to speak of. In the end it is > all about the users i think. With an open source project (even a large operating system), generally the (non-paid) developers do the work for their own needs (or interests). I'd assume that many of the committers would do the work even without the large user community. Jeremy C. Reed http://bsd.reedmedia.net/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message