From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Sep 9 6:57: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [63.67.141.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A7BC152BB for ; Thu, 9 Sep 1999 06:57:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA24920; Thu, 9 Sep 1999 09:56:14 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 09:56:14 -0400 (EDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: Brett Glass Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Contributors, or lack thereof In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.19990909020227.045a31b0@localhost> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, Brett Glass wrote: > 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. And you wonder why people resort to name calling. -- | Matthew N. Dodd | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD | | winter@jurai.net | 2 x '84 Volvo 245DL | ix86,sparc,pmax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | This Space For Rent | ISO8802.5 4ever | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message