From owner-freebsd-chat Sat May 15 15:13:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from implode.root.com (root.com [209.102.106.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43A2914C3D for ; Sat, 15 May 1999 15:13:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@implode.root.com) Received: from implode.root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by implode.root.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA13843; Sat, 15 May 1999 15:11:52 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199905152211.PAA13843@implode.root.com> To: "David Schwartz" Cc: "Chuck Robey" , "Studded" , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/pci pcisupport.c In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 15 May 1999 14:38:08 PDT." <000001be9f1b$395c0d60$021d85d1@whenever.youwant.to> From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 15:11:52 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >> > As a matter of fact, yes we are. All of our coding work is volunteer. > >> Oh, yeah? And do you force your developers to code what the >> non-develoers want? How do you force them? Developers here do what >> they want to do. > > It's funny, you seem to think it's impossible to make volunteers do what >the thing they're volunteering for wants them to do. The Red Cross has no >problem doing it. It's not nearly as difficult as you might think. > > You just have to manipulate the right carrots and the right sticks. It's >really that simple. I've managed some pretty large volunteer projects. It's >not easy, but it's not impossible either. Chuck is more right. While we do have some influence, people still work on whatever they want. Things are a bit more difficult in a free software project since the programming is often highly specialized. It's not the same thing as being part of the envelop stuffing team at e.g. the Red Cross. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message