Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 11:46:49 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@FreeBSD.ORG> To: karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se (Mikael Karpberg) Cc: jak@cetlink.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Donations. Message-ID: <199803051646.LAA00971@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <199803051334.OAA22226@ocean.campus.luth.se> from Mikael Karpberg at "Mar 5, 98 02:34:13 pm"
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Mikael Karpberg said: > > FreeBSD is not a democracy. It's a kingdom with Jordan at the throne, and > a group of nobleties around him. > Even though almost everyone in -core respects and generally likes JKH, note that he is NOT a king. If there was alot of disagreement with JKH, he would hear about it, and most likely pipe-down. JKH handles alot of the things that the other developers don't want to be bothered with. Given that, he deserves a huge amount of respect, and the rest of core mostly realizes that the coherent and generally reasonable positions that JKH takes have been working out very nicely. We would be alot worse off without him. JKH is very good at this common-sense thing and what he does, and believe me, he also doesn't take an autocratic standpoint on things. Think of JKH as our spokesperson, and leader because it is a postion that he is very good at. IMO, because of that, he has more respect than if he was a "king" or "autocrat". DG is in that category also. The -core organization is NOT a mutual admiration society, but simply something that works pretty well. -core has been pretty much self organizing, almost in an organic fashion. -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@freebsd.org | it just makes you look stupid, jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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