Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 14:35:11 +0800 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: dwilde1@ibm.net, Malartre <malartre@aei.ca> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A lot of idea --- Coordination Message-ID: <19980421143511.22454@papillon.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <35397ED0.57BF7C0C@ibm.net>; from Don Wilde on Sat, Apr 18, 1998 at 09:34:24PM -0700 References: <35397809.7D796AF1@aei.ca> <35397ED0.57BF7C0C@ibm.net>
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On Sat, 18 April 1998 at 21:34:24 -0700, Don Wilde wrote: > Other than the FreeBSD web site or something that needs official > permission from Jordan, or a 'port' that needs to be committed by an > official 'committer', guess what? We're it! Pick something you want to > work on, and go to it. Nobody official asked Mark Mayo to build his > database of articles and academia, he just took it on himself. Ditto the > tireless Greg Lehey and Doug White, who take so much of their time to > make -questions work for all of us. Frank Pawlak Started to take on the > task of coordination for -advocacy, but I haven't heard from him in a > few days. You'll have to get used to the idea that in a democracy > (almost anarchy?) like this is, some ideas get done and some don't. I've been wondering how to describe the social interactions in this project, and I'll probably wonder for a while longer, but here are a couple of observations: The FreeBSD movement is not a democracy. In a democracy, the majority wins. I think the FreeBSD movement is a good example where a democracy would be a Bad Thing. The FreeBSD movement is an anarchy. People go and do their thing, and many benefit from it. The classical problems of anarchies (people making their own laws and terrorizing their neighbours) is eliminated by the communication medium. Linux and FreeBSD have different structures, but they're much more similar than you might think. I wonder what the FreeBSD movement would look like if it were the size of the Linux movement. Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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