Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 22:05:26 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, imp@village.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, fullermd@futuresouth.com Subject: Re: group assignments from make world. Message-ID: <199710102205.PAA16041@usr08.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <11936.876445293@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Oct 9, 97 06:01:33 pm
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> > Does this strike anyone else as a discipline issue rather than > > a user read-access control issue? > > What's your point? You're not going to get 70+ volunteer > hackers to do a synchronized swimming act no matter how much Isn't the Olympic synchronized swimming team all volunteer as well? How do they get volunteers to do a synchronized swimming act? 8-) 8-). Simon had the correct interpretation of my comments, by the way, so you can turn down the steam. 8-). > Yes, in an idealized world you could do all that and I'm sure that you > will now cite personal experience at Novell where 10,000 developers > all worked in close harmony despite not being paid a cent, purely > through the administration of simple electric shocks, but I don't see > any of that as particularly practical in our circumstances. The shocks weren't that simple; I don't think they'd work in a volunteer effort without everyone signing a waiver. Novell's was part of the employment contract: the page following the "involuntary organ donation to ailing company executives" form -- luckily no one who matched my tissue types needed organs during my tenure there. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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