From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Sep 9 2: 2:40 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 C934E15BE8 for ; Thu, 9 Sep 1999 02:02:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by lariat.lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id DAA05466; Thu, 9 Sep 1999 03:02:02 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.19990909020227.045a31b0@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 02:05:01 -0600 To: "Matthew N. Dodd" From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Contributors, or lack thereof Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <4.2.0.58.19990908211304.046462a0@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 12:48 AM 9/9/99 -0400, Matthew N. Dodd wrote: >Well, you didn't say advocacy strategies, you said 'contributors to the >code base', so changing arguements here isn't going to work. I'm not "changing arguments;" I'm making two distinct points. First, contributions to the code base are impeded by ego, territoriality, and elitism. Second, contributions that DON'T involve code are considered to be second-rate, even if they're needed very bit as much as code. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message