Date: Sun, 31 May 1998 01:21:53 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek <hoek@hwcn.org> To: Jack Velte <jackv@earthling.net> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: notFreeBSD plan, v 4 Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980531010907.10042B-100000@james.hwcn.org> In-Reply-To: <01bd8c41$e0262100$4a1daace@eliot.pacbell.net>
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On Sat, 30 May 1998, Jack Velte wrote: > contribution metrics: > * # emails on list, exponentially decreasing average. > * # & length (outside of comments) emails on list, > exponentially decreasing average. > * lines of source code, minus symbol only lines. > * core team members. > * popular vote, clicking on the web. Egads! None of those could work. Among other things, we strive to minimize source code size, and the mailing-lists already suffer from too much mail. > "To produce the best possible software at the lowest possible price > while making stakeholders rich." I think a slightly fundamental problem is that too many people here do not share your vision. If they (we) were interested in $$$, better ways to make $$$ than throwing away many hours into a volunteer project would have long-ago been found. Perhaps that's the "problem" with developing a philosophy for FreeBSD. MS, for example, can simply state their mission as `to dominate the desktop', or whatever. They then unite behind this. The reasons for the existance of FreeBSD are much much more varied and too complex to allow a simple mission statement. Consider the range from the dedicated researcher-advocate (a-la Terry Lambert) to those under corporate influence (a-la the guy from Sun interested in porting FreeBSD to whatever non-Intel architecture (my memory ability varies inversely with the hour, so excuse my here :)) to the young kid hacker who just wants to know what makes his computer go <purr> (or whatever sound he hears it making). -- Outnumbered? Maybe. Outspoken? Never! tIM...HOEk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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