Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 20:33:03 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com> Cc: Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/pci pcisupport.c Message-ID: <373C09EF.E3B0D4F2@newsguy.com> References: <000001be9ce8$291f3790$021d85d1@whenever.youwant.to>
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David Schwartz wrote: > > Believe it or not, good ideas can even come from people who can't code at > all, and the ideas are just as good. Slapping these people down just ensures > they don't contribute in the future. > > Now if their ideas genuinely are bad, you are more than welcome to slap > them down as much as you wish. If that means they don't contribute more bad > ideas in the future, so much the better. Heck, it even may save you the idea > of having to explain why the bad idea is, in fact, bad. > > But "if it's such a good idea, why don't you code it?" doesn't fall into > any of these categories. It's one of those "that's what you think" type > arguments that serves as an excuse to ignore the merits of the other side's > case. Well, it would help if the people who can't code wouldn't so often make bad suggestions and then keep trying someone else to implement them even when the people who *can* code tells them it's a bad idea, and they just won't take that for an answer. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "Proof of Trotsky's farsightedness is that _none_ of his predictions have come true yet." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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