On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 08:48:10AM -0500, Jos? Enrique Alvarez Estrada wrote: > --- Jeroen Dekkers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribi?: > > On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 11:32:29AM +0100, Ben A L > > Jemmett wrote: > > > > Why on earth would anyone say they "wouldn't > > like" the students to > > > > work on it? > > > > > > Have you seen some of the crap students can turn > > out? > > > > Just don't give them direct access to CVS, only when > > they have proven > > to write good code and have skills in other things > > (like social skills > > etc). If it's crap you just say "This might be nice > > for education > > purposes, you probably have learned a lot from it, > > but for real work > > it's not good enough. <Your comments and > > suggestestions how to do it > > better next time>" > > > > Jeroen Dekkers > ?At least, a controversial theme in the list! > It's a very interesting suggestion to make students > colaborate in GNU projects.
Yes, there are really a lot of interesting things in GNU. If you want some other good things to actual research on some good things in the OS world, I suggest you go read about the Hurd (http://hurd.gnu.org/). > But it's interesting too > define what is "good enough for real work": I think > Stallman's definition says it: "Codify and release > fast, find bugs and correct it". Not really, this is more the Linus and ESR approach. In the past, GNU never released fast and the development was only done by some GNU people. Linux showed us that having open development is much better. (This is the major thing which went wrong in the development of the Hurd, I'm happily seeing it going good now.) > What do you think about it? I'm going to university within about 1.5 years (I'm probably very young compared to most people here), I will never work on anything which isn't free software. > Maybe the universities and students will be the only > real future of Open Source. If I see open source, I think about companies. If I see free software, I think about communities. Now I don't say you can't make a company based on free software, but the way of thinking is different. You can find a lot of information about this on the GNU website. I think we should move this somewhere else if you want to continue discussing this. (Private mail probably) Jeroen Dekkers -- Jabber supporter - http://www.jabber.org Jabber ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org http://www.gnu.org IRC: jeroen@openprojects
