Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2003 15:13:00 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@attbi.com> Cc: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bystander shot by a spam filter Message-ID: <3E18BBFC.85C1303C@mindspring.com> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20030105120224.029377d0@localhost> <3E18073C.68182FE4@mindspring.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20030104201251.029387d0@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20030104112015.026a5530@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20030104201251.029387d0@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20030104202908.03c3b100@localhost> <20030105073804.GA72674@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20030105074923.GA4956@papagena.rockefeller.edu> <3E18073C.68182FE4@mindspring.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20030105120224.029377d0@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20030105125940.0293f4e0@localhost> <o73co7mdul.co7@localhost.localdomain>
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"Gary W. Swearingen" wrote: > Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> writes: > > 20% of a 3 GHz machine is a lot of cycles. > > Roughy 20% of them. You'd have to sell a whole lot of compilers to > balance the cost of a replacement compiler with the savings of 20% fewer > computers that run the compilers, being especially hard since there are > many fewer compilers than computers. Taking this to the free software > world, 20% would hardly enough to merit tying up a team of > gcc-replacement programmers, keeping them away from more useful (in > general) projects they could effect in 100% sort of ways. There's > evidence in the fact that nobody's found it worthwhile in the last > decade, even when the percentage was much larger than 20%. Rule #4: You can not schedule volunteer Open Source software work unless you are prepared to do it personally. This is frequently expressed as "Patches, please?" or "You forgot to attach a URL: for your code!" or "Code speaks louder than words" or "Speak for yourself!"; there are also an astonishing variety of less polite ways it gets said, but it's always the same message. There are certain circumstances where this rule doesn't hold true, but they are all "boss/employee", "teacher/student", or some similar relationship, where the person scheduling the work has some form of economic hold on the person who's efforts are being scheduled: thus, it's technically not actually volunteer effort. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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