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Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 19:16:54 -0500
From: Paul Murphy <pnmurphy@cogeco.ca>
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On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 14:17:38 -0600 (CST)
Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> wrote:

> > Alas, the problem is that the FreeBSD developers do not attach
> > appropriate value to advocacy. Contributions in the form of advocacy
> > are virtually unvalued relative to contributions in the form of
> > code.
> 
> IMHO what you're seeing is not this, but instead, frustration from
> the developers in feeling that the advocacy discussions less often
> bear concrete results than code contributions.
> 
> If you don't think the advocacy efforts are good enough, please
> come up with something concrete, propose it on -advocacy, and
> see if you can get volunteers to sign on to help.
> 
> mcl
> 

 "Submit a patch" ;)

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