Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:40:09 +0100 | From | Al Viro <> | Subject | Re: Introducing Fredux: a redundant project |
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On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 10:38:36AM -0500, Fred Trotter wrote: > http://www.fredtrotter.com/2007/11/27/foss-sin-pointless-duplication-of-effort/
Far more interesting question: who _cares_? The notion of "legitimacy" in that context is, AFAICS, based on unfounded assumption that there somebody owes you something - be it their time, their "loyalty", etc. Developers' minds are not resources you might have a claim upon.
If you make a sufficient nuisance of yourself by playing marketing games, you will certainly be flamed, but not because of some mystical drain on resources. Landing pointless drivel in mailboxes is quite sufficient on its own...
As as aside, ESR's understanding of the mechanisms making developers' community work had been repeatedly proven to be... inadequate. FWIW, he seems to be trying to shoehorn everything into an ideology and results are laughable.
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