I don't believe there is anywhere written in the "social contract" that producing a certain quantity of code entitles you to utterly ignore the common ideas of civility and inter-personal relationships.
But, unfortunately, a great deal of the OSS developers seem to see it the way you stated. Michael On Tuesday 25 June 2002 03:38 pm, Net Llama! wrote: > On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Philip J. Koenig wrote: > > There has been a heated discussion on this over in the FreeBSD > > security list, suffice to say that Theo's obnoxious attitude doesn't > > help matters. Nonetheless this is important info: > > The way i see it, if you write a heaping hunk of code that thousands, if > not millions of people use on a daily basis, you can be as obnoxious as > you like. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.