From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jan 16 12:36:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from avocet.prod.itd.earthlink.net (avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F22437B402 for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 12:36:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0454.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.193.199] helo=mindspring.com) by avocet.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16QwnF-0005cr-00; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 12:36:21 -0800 Message-ID: <3C45E442.C6C69333@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 12:36:18 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brett Glass Cc: 'emailrob' spellberg , FreeBSD Chat List Subject: Re: FreeBSDmall vs Daemonnews mall References: <3C459893.44485DA3@emailrob.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20020116085240.01c9e3e0@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20020116102625.01e4f880@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brett Glass wrote: > >when quality is important, control must be maintained. > > Actually, just the opposite is true. That's the entire philosophy > behind open source: that quality results from contributions and > consensus rather than iron-fisted control by one entity. I don't know, Brett... he has a point. Look at how uncontrolled the buffalo were when Europeans first hit North America, and how controlled they are now, and how much their quality has gone up as a result... -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message