From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jul 20 8:57: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D1FC14CB0 for ; Tue, 20 Jul 1999 08:57:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by lariat.lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA26177; Tue, 20 Jul 1999 09:56:58 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.19990720095349.00a2e250@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 09:56:54 -0600 To: a disembodied voice emerging from the chaos of reality From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Oh my, penguins are a'comin': DebianBSD Cc: Phil Regnauld , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <4.2.0.58.19990720092854.00a91100@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message