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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."




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