Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:24:31 -0500 | From | "Fred Trotter" <> | Subject | Re: Introducing Fredux: a redundant project |
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Thanks for replying, responses throughout.
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote: > 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.
Agreed. But those developers certainly have a claim upon their own time. Having spent a year working on the "wrong" project, I would have been much happier if someone had told me that the project was not "legitimate" compared to other projects. I was contributing to someone else under false pretenses. It certainly frustrated me and I would expect that others would have felt the same way. Would it be clearer if I put this more strongly into the text?
> > 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.
ESR might be right... he might be wrong... I am more interested in the evaluation of my ideas against what "really" happens in the kernel community. What are the rules here?
-- Fred Trotter http://www.fredtrotter.com
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