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Date:      Tue, 21 Jan 1997 22:09:45 -0700 (MST)
From:      Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To:        Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Cc:        chuckr@glue.umd.edu (Chuck Robey), hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Commerical applications (was: Development and validation
Message-ID:  <199701220509.WAA23906@rocky.mt.sri.com>
In-Reply-To: <199701220141.SAA20620@phaeton.artisoft.com>
References:  <Pine.OSF.3.95.970121193435.2287F-100000@professor.eng.umd.edu> <199701220141.SAA20620@phaeton.artisoft.com>

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Terry Lambert writes:
> > > A weighted democracy would be one open-ended growth soloution, as
> > > long as parametric changes could be made within the system.  I have
> > > suggested this before.  A trivial napkin drawing version:
> > 
> > This would so overcomplicate things that you would virtually guarantee no
> > new members joining FreeBSD.  Word of this would get around, most likely
> > with appropriate scare stories, and folks would avoid the groups like they
> > were plagued.  It wouldn't matter if this actually was workable or not,
> > the perception of thought police would be too strong.
> 
> The "perception of thought police" is what we have now.
> 
> What percentage "Linux vs. FreeBSD" usenet posts from the Linux side
> of the fence have claimed "FreeBSD has closed developement"?

I'll bet you that the number is closed to nil now.  I haven't seen one
in over 9 months on Usenet.



Nate



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