From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Feb 4 15:28:55 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09CBF37B401 for ; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 15:28:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from scrooge.etek.chalmers.se (scrooge.etek.chalmers.se [129.16.32.112]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0771B43E4A for ; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 15:28:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from b@etek.chalmers.se) Received: from scrooge.etek.chalmers.se (b@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by scrooge.etek.chalmers.se (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h14NSqca082742 for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 00:28:52 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from b@etek.chalmers.se) Received: from localhost (b@localhost) by scrooge.etek.chalmers.se (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) with ESMTP id h14NSqnZ082739 for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 00:28:52 +0100 (CET) X-Authentication-Warning: scrooge.etek.chalmers.se: b owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 00:28:52 +0100 (CET) From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Magnus_B=E4ckstr=F6m?= To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dillon@'s commit bit: I object In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Larry Sica wrote: > > > invested in freebsd because i am not a developer. Without ppl like > > me, the users, there would be no freebsd to speak of. In the end it is > > all about the users i think. > > With an open source project (even a large operating system), generally the > (non-paid) developers do the work for their own needs (or interests). > > I'd assume that many of the committers would do the work even without the > large user community. Until they go and do something else, yes. There is turnover in the developer community; without the users there is no base for recruitment (actually diffusion into the community) of developers. In the end, it is all about the users, indeed. Magnus To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message