Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 09:56:54 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: a disembodied voice emerging from the chaos of reality <cjc26@cornell.edu> Cc: Phil Regnauld <regnauld@ftf.net>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Oh my, penguins are a'comin': DebianBSD Message-ID: <4.2.0.58.19990720095349.00a2e250@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907201138590.8708-100000@tankgrrl> References: <4.2.0.58.19990720092854.00a91100@localhost>
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At 11:46 AM 7/20/99 -0400, a disembodied voice emerging from the chaos of reality wrote: >I think this is a Good Thing. Allowing just anybody to come in and >hack the kernel might be nice and democratic, but it doesn't ensure >the quality of the code. Neither does having too few hands to improve the code -- or turning off capable programmers who might otherwise participate. There's a big difference between peer review (a good thing) and literally chasing developers away and refusing to promote the technology (what FreeBSD is currently doing). --Brett Glass To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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