Corporate pressure

Panu Matilainen pmatilai at welho.com
Tue Feb 3 09:12:16 UTC 2004


On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Michel Alexandre Salim wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 03:12 -0500, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> 
> > For some, it's "personal satisfaction", for others it might be 
> > "scratch an itch", or "fame", or some other motivation.  For a 
> > complete list, buy Eric's book and read it.  One of the things 
> > notably missing from the list of "motivating factors for 
> > volunteers to do stuff for free" is "rude people making obnoxious 
> > demands".
> > 
> > That particular item is on the "ways to get someone to never 
> > listen to you again, and purposefully do the opposite of what 
> > you want" list.
> > 
> Precisely why I was trying to show that there are people who appreciate
> what Eric offered to do, and hope that while it could not erase the
> damage of that insult, at least mitigates its effect a bit.
> 
> I wonder what's happening with Fedora-devel. Not only do we get newbies
> nowadays asking configuration questions, we also get Slashdot/Usenet-
> style flame wars...

If you think the flamewars on fedora-devel are bad, go look at 
debian-devel someday :)

	- Panu -





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