On Thursday 02 May 2002 08:56 am, Jim Mercer wrote: > i think a mission statement full of boastfulness is just a sound bite, and > will be dismissed as such.
> if you want the mission statement to have an impact, then it needs to be > acceptable not only to those who fully embrace it, but also acceptable to > those who will respect the project from a distance. > otherwise its not a mission statement, its akin to a corporate cheer. > ( i'm picturing Steve Balmer's superlative exhaltations to the converted > http://www.ntk.net/ballmer/mirrors.html ) In the corporate world a mission statement is often the 'sound bite' and a 'corporate cheer'. I personally think "To have fun making and improving the most extensible, robust, ACID-compliant Free database system on the planet" wraps up at least why I think we're all here. s/Free/Open Source/g if you'd rather not invoke a stallmanism. Or even s/Free/BSD-licensed/g if you want to really state the obvious. :-) If other projects' members are insulted by that, then they're just too sensitive. -- Lamar Owen WGCR Internet Radio 1 Peter 4:11 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]