From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Oct 8 15: 2:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from xylan.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B94A714F78; Fri, 8 Oct 1999 15:02:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com by xylan.com (8.8.7/SMI-SVR4 (ind.alcatel.com 2.3 [OUT])) id PAA05500; Fri, 8 Oct 1999 15:02:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id PAA03381; Fri, 8 Oct 1999 15:02:03 -0700 Received: from softweyr.com (dyn0.utah.xylan.com) by omni.xylan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1 (xylan engr [SPOOL])) id AA19690; Fri, 8 Oct 99 15:01:47 PDT Message-Id: <37FE69D9.D0CB3836@softweyr.com> Date: Fri, 08 Oct 1999 16:02:01 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Critic to The Cathedral and The Bazaar References: <37FE1EF1.6544AB38@newsguy.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Daniel C. Sobral" wrote: > > There is an interesting critic to the famous ESR's article at > http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue4_10/bezroukov/index.html. > Interestingly, FreeBSD (and Jordan) is mentioned. This is quite a good article, with some interesting points to make. For instance, I think many in -hackers will find this all too close to the target: Yet little is known about how Internet-based virtual teams (IVT) really operate and what problems develop in that sort of cooperation. Some evident problems are: o overload and subsequent burnout of leading developers due to excessive load, with significant loss of interest in a given product; o a conservative approach to architecture (it's really difficult to change the architecture of a product after its development has started) o e-mail based written communication to some degree tends to distort meaning and invite fights and flame wars. Hmm. Sound familiar? This is worth a read for everyone, that's why I've emailed this to -chat as well. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message