While I usually care little of any for John Dvorak rants and the talk back
it generated; the following quite drew my attention. He extracted it as
post 349 by an anonymous reader (interesting to see that he does take that
active an interest in his feedback forum):
"OSS is an important
Dirk,
> how does this mesh with groups like Apache, where we like to
> think that the longer term goal, and the code base surviving individual
> coders, are paramount.
I don't think contributing to Apache it is much at odds with this, you could
say that our personal goals include ensuring the
I suggest that you go back to your normal policy of ignoring Dvorak's
existence. He is a columnist, not a journalist. The primary purpose of his
writing is more to incite audience response than convey useful information,
as he says in an exchange we had in January:
I do comment on this too,
On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, Noel J. Bergman wrote:
> I suggest that you go back to your normal policy of ignoring Dvorak's
> existence.
:-) Very big grin
> FWIW, James, Avalon and other projects recently decided to remove the
> @author tags from the source files. There was some disagreement in
Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote:
"Vanity is the driving force behind OSS, as is greed behind
closed-source
software. Try to use someone's OSS code without attributing original
authorship, and you will see how quickly your quaint "community"
devolves
into harsh
> Not to pick on Noel, but he is driven to get James to be the mail server
> the ASF uses, working tirelessly to improve features and scalability.
> If he was solely motivated by altruism, he might get tired and realize
> the current mail system already handles Apache's needs.
LOL No, being
I submitted draft 03 of the URI spec revision on Friday. It can
also be obtained via the issues list at
http://www.apache.org/~fielding/uri/rev-2002/issues.html
This draft is close to final, with maybe a few editorial changes
left before going to IESG last call. It would be nice if the Apache
On 9/06/2003 17:08 Noel J. Bergman wrote:
FWIW, James, Avalon and other projects recently decided to remove the
@author tags from the source files. There was some disagreement in the
Avalon list, there was none on the James list. We do try to give people
recognition in the CVS commit logs,
On Monday, June 9, 2003, at 06:23 AM, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote:
extracted ... by an anonymous reader
... restatement of capitalism's thesis ...
People that announce that one of the hundreds of tiny currencies that
participants get paid in is the dominate one are telling you more about
> I don't know whether this was a symptom, a remedy, or a cause. Isn't the
> fact these tags needed to be removed some telltale? I'm just wondering,
> since you seem to advocate this as a good community pattern.
I fully admit that I suggested it after seeing what was going on in Avalon,
and no
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 06:06:54PM -0400, Noel J. Bergman wrote:
> > I don't know whether this was a symptom, a remedy, or a cause. Isn't the
> > fact these tags needed to be removed some telltale? I'm just wondering,
> > since you seem to advocate this as a good community pattern.
>
> I fully
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