From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 4 13:46:08 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA25761 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 13:46:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles146.castles.com [208.214.165.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA25694 for ; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 13:46:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA16767; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 13:41:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199902042141.NAA16767@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Sheldon Hearn cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Consensus and direction (was Re: ldconfig and libraries) In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 04 Feb 1999 23:36:26 +0200." <64244.918164186@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 13:41:44 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > Sure, we listen to your opinion. We also listen to everyone else's > > opinion. If you don't like the fact that there are more people that > > don't share your opinion than do, please don't take it out on us. > > Hi Mike, > > The paragraph above worries me. I've always had a sense that the people > determining directions for FreeBSD are people who are "abiding by a > code", in a sense -- that they know The Right Thing and try to keep > things as pure as possible. > > Is this a misperception? If the vast majority of users wanted something > that was an incredibly bad idea, would it be adopted within FreeBSD or > turfed out? If the vast majority of users wanted something, by definition it wouldn't be an incredibly bad idea. Perhaps more to the point is that the FreeBSD user community shares the same basic principles as the Project itself, so it's not likely to demand something incredibly bad in the first place. Were such a situation to arise, I suspect that the people that thought the idea was incredibly bad would campaign to educate those that thought otherwise. I think we've seen this happen many times already without noticing it, actually. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message