Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 15:11:52 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com> Cc: "Chuck Robey" <chuckr@picnic.mat.net>, "Studded" <Studded@gorean.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/pci pcisupport.c Message-ID: <199905152211.PAA13843@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 15 May 1999 14:38:08 PDT." <000001be9f1b$395c0d60$021d85d1@whenever.youwant.to>
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>> > As a matter of fact, yes we are. All of our coding work is volunteer. > >> Oh, yeah? And do you force your developers to code what the >> non-develoers want? How do you force them? Developers here do what >> they want to do. > > It's funny, you seem to think it's impossible to make volunteers do what >the thing they're volunteering for wants them to do. The Red Cross has no >problem doing it. It's not nearly as difficult as you might think. > > You just have to manipulate the right carrots and the right sticks. It's >really that simple. I've managed some pretty large volunteer projects. It's >not easy, but it's not impossible either. Chuck is more right. While we do have some influence, people still work on whatever they want. Things are a bit more difficult in a free software project since the programming is often highly specialized. It's not the same thing as being part of the envelop stuffing team at e.g. the Red Cross. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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