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Date:      Tue, 04 Feb 2003 19:05:51 -0700
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        Magnus Bäckström <b@etek.chalmers.se>, Larry Sica <lomion@mac.com>
Cc:        "" <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: dillon@'s commit bit: I object
Message-ID:  <4.3.2.7.2.20030204190405.04034920@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <20030204234620.H761-100000@rockerduck.eep1>
References:  <3C66FB8E-3873-11D7-9842-000393A335A2@mac.com> <3C66FB8E-3873-11D7-9842-000393A335A2@mac.com>

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At 04:12 PM 2/4/2003, Magnus Bäckström wrote:

>The truth and power of the statement assumes that the engineers and
>programmers aren't receptive to the arguments of good marketers,
>advocates, and planners.  In practice, I'm not seeing the FreeBSD
>project run by a bunch of inbred nerds who are resistant to every
>clue outside their own field.

I don't know if I'd put it QUITE that way, but it's definitely
true that most of the -core developers have always been uninterested
in -- or even actively opposed -- the sort of high-powered, effective
advocacy that has made Linux a buzzword in the industry. 

--Brett


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