From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 11 18:58:53 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A93516A4CE for ; Wed, 11 May 2005 18:58:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAEB043D70 for ; Wed, 11 May 2005 18:58:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-advocacy@m.gmane.org) Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1DVwHs-0003f8-0b for freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org; Wed, 11 May 2005 20:50:28 +0200 Received: from 0x5551206f.adsl.cybercity.dk ([85.81.32.111]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 11 May 2005 20:50:27 +0200 Received: from jwl by 0x5551206f.adsl.cybercity.dk with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 11 May 2005 20:50:27 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org From: Jeppe Larsen Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 20:46:41 +0200 Lines: 35 Message-ID: References: <20050509200737.GA18593@gentoo> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 0x5551206f.adsl.cybercity.dk User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2 (This is not a psychotic episode. It's a cleansing moment of clarity.) Sender: news Subject: Re: is this your culture? X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 18:58:53 -0000 Hi again Thanx for your replies, and I can assure you that we have written all over our report, that _good_ code is almost all that matters, so there shouldn't be anything missing there. We will consider wbat to do with your other suggestions. Anyways, we have today tried a little different approach in desribeing your culture. The following statements should be more broad and general, and not related to some single things. They should be considered as what you take for granted and what is "hidden" in the everyday life of FreeBSD, but still matters. So again, I hope you have time for a comment or two :-) -That we share our knowledge makes us stronger (this should refer to the whole "open-source/free software" ideology and that you value this approach to knowledge and software and code) -One must think for himself and do "the right thing" (here hopefully referring to the mentality that one should at least have searched google, the mailinglist archive and read som man-pages, before involving others in his problems. It should also refer to the idea about "elegant software" and writing software that gives the user the abillity to do what he wants and not the other way around) -Our way of doing things is right (well, this is very commonsense, because of course you think that FreeBS at least has some things right, or else you wouldn't be working on the project vulentarily. But it should also say something about your little "distance" you make to the way for example GNU/Linux does things. "The BSDL is true free software", "We love Unix, we don't hate Windows" and so on) Regards, Jeppe Larsen