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Date:      Tue, 20 Jul 1999 09:56:54 -0600
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        a disembodied voice emerging from the chaos of reality <cjc26@cornell.edu>
Cc:        Phil Regnauld <regnauld@ftf.net>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Oh my, penguins are a'comin': DebianBSD
Message-ID:  <4.2.0.58.19990720095349.00a2e250@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907201138590.8708-100000@tankgrrl>
References:  <4.2.0.58.19990720092854.00a91100@localhost>

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At 11:46 AM 7/20/99 -0400, a disembodied voice emerging from the chaos of reality wrote:

 >I think this is a Good Thing.  Allowing just anybody to come in and
>hack the kernel might be nice and democratic, but it doesn't ensure
>the quality of the code.

Neither does having too few hands to improve the code -- or turning off
capable programmers who might otherwise participate. There's a big
difference between peer review (a good thing) and literally chasing
developers away and refusing to promote the technology (what FreeBSD
is currently doing).

--Brett Glass



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