Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 09:56:14 -0400 (EDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Contributors, or lack thereof Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909090955350.14497-100000@sasami.jurai.net> In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.19990909020227.045a31b0@localhost>
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On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, Brett Glass wrote: > At 12:48 AM 9/9/99 -0400, Matthew N. Dodd wrote: > > >Well, you didn't say advocacy strategies, you said 'contributors to the > >code base', so changing arguements here isn't going to work. > > I'm not "changing arguments;" I'm making two distinct points. First, > contributions to the code base are impeded by ego, territoriality, > and elitism. Second, contributions that DON'T involve code are > considered to be second-rate, even if they're needed very bit as > much as code. And you wonder why people resort to name calling. -- | Matthew N. Dodd | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD | | winter@jurai.net | 2 x '84 Volvo 245DL | ix86,sparc,pmax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | This Space For Rent | ISO8802.5 4ever | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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