From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 21 21:13:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA13204 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 21 Jan 1997 21:13:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from rocky.mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA13197 for ; Tue, 21 Jan 1997 21:13:37 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.mt.sri.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA23906; Tue, 21 Jan 1997 22:09:45 -0700 (MST) Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 22:09:45 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <199701220509.WAA23906@rocky.mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams To: Terry Lambert Cc: chuckr@glue.umd.edu (Chuck Robey), hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Commerical applications (was: Development and validation In-Reply-To: <199701220141.SAA20620@phaeton.artisoft.com> References: <199701220141.SAA20620@phaeton.artisoft.com> Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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