Date: Sat, 24 Aug 1996 08:06:43 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com> To: Tony Kimball <alk@think.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Am I wrong or is this just stupid?r Message-ID: <3098.840866803@critter.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 23 Aug 1996 16:58:41 CDT." <199608232158.QAA05012@compound.Think.COM>
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In message <199608232158.QAA05012@compound.Think.COM>, Tony Kimball writes: >Quoth Poul-Henning Kamp on Fri, 23 August: >: Pointing a finger at something and saying: "This is wrong" has >: historically not been a method for encouraging progress. > >It's a good way to find out whether or not you are right about >it, though. Accomplishing a fixed goal is relatively simple, >in comparison to the difficulty of determine what is a valid >goal. That's why I ignore certain folks when they gripe about people >complaining rather than contributing. Much of the time they >are not complaining. They are attempting to learn the true >situation, to validate their ideas -- often in order that >appropriate goals may be formulated. A little help over this hump >may be necessary in order to obtain the contribution of >productive effort. There is a certain chilling effect >resulting from the known condition that patches submitted >sometimes languish, for example. By determining whether a patch >would be well recieved, one can better estimate the desirability of >generating the patch. > But then, when certain people consistently fails to produce any patches... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.
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