From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Mar 23 23:15:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from granger.mail.mindspring.net (granger.mail.mindspring.net [207.69.200.148]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFE3737B64C for ; Thu, 23 Mar 2000 23:15:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhix@mindspring.com) Received: from jhix.mindspring.com (user-33qti57.dialup.mindspring.com [199.174.200.167]) by granger.mail.mindspring.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA11299; Fri, 24 Mar 2000 02:15:36 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (jhix@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jhix.mindspring.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id XAA54852; Thu, 23 Mar 2000 23:20:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhix@mindspring.com) To: brett@lariat.org Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: On "intelligent people" and "dangers to BSD" In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20000321221834.041727c0@localhost> References: <200003212351.QAA13462@usr08.primenet.com> <4.2.2.20000321221834.041727c0@localhost> X-Mailer: Mew version 1.94.1 on XEmacs 21.1 (Bryce Canyon) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20000323232028H.jhix@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 23:20:28 -0800 From: W Gerald Hicks X-Dispatcher: imput version 990905(IM130) Lines: 27 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: On "intelligent people" and "dangers to BSD" Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 22:19:37 -0700 > At 04:51 PM 3/21/2000 , Terry Lambert wrote: > > >People who have read an abstract of Raymond's "The Cathedral And > >th Bazaar" are writing most of the articles. They haven't read > >the full text, > > True. The paper itself is rather badly written, IMHO. I know > what he's driving at, but he does not express it well. > I didn't get it (the paper). ESR's assertion that ego gratification is the primary motivational force behind the free software revolution was a very negative impression I came away with. I couldn't disagree more. I believe that it's simply a matter of craftsmen (and women :) asserting their power over the tools of their trade. -- Jerry Hicks jhix@mindspring.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message