Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 19:32:28 -0700 (MST) From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams), jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Commerical applications (was: Development and validation Message-ID: <199701230232.TAA28344@rocky.mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <199701230023.RAA22590@phaeton.artisoft.com> References: <199701222341.QAA27480@rocky.mt.sri.com> <199701230023.RAA22590@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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[ Voting ] > > Question: How will it generate work? What is the purpose of the voting mechanism if not to change the current focus of developers? If your answer is that somehow voting will somehow increase the number of developers, then you are completely ignoring history. Voting simply puts decisions in the hands of the voters, but it does *nothing* with regard to getting more people doing the work, rather the opposite is true. So, if voting is to have any effect it either will pull the current developers off their existing 'projects' which they do for fun, or cause them to add more projects, which in either cause will cause them to either jump ship, ignore the vote (thus making the vote useless), or get burned out quicker. There is absolutely *NO* reward for agreeing to implement what the users vote for. Nate
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