From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1Gx2gw-0005CG-7v for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 20 Dec 2006 14:45:10 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kBKEemVm016762; Wed, 20 Dec 2006 14:40:48 GMT Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.191]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kBKEaD1d004725 for ; Wed, 20 Dec 2006 14:36:13 GMT Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id c31so4121554nfb for ; Wed, 20 Dec 2006 06:36:13 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=dhbaViF6LMuaQDvHptsoxje5AdfZNxe6TXahtmwEeMO+znFkvcBxDqbpkDF6rFrw44ZfSLoBZU7ZT2zT3GTVbFUqnDxFLXEHz5K7fKoDcuqCjW40XXFHY4BGSZfdldtfixbrgPQVuv3pBctbfVKTd/VaqDLaOeBLO0sPuBEhYgE= Received: by 10.82.120.15 with SMTP id s15mr27026buc.1166625342518; Wed, 20 Dec 2006 06:35:42 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.82.178.3 with HTTP; Wed, 20 Dec 2006 06:35:42 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <8a0028260612200635s913cf41y2af24da51afc5ab8@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 14:35:42 +0000 From: "Jeff Rollin" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy? In-Reply-To: <20061219100545.486bdde6@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <49bf44f10612180647g6ac243ebm9cfa8b79a5aeb3b5@mail.gmail.com> <200612181827.20843.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> <49bf44f10612181054s6e4f621dy17708692a71a25dd@mail.gmail.com> <342e1090612181118s1d832443vac532f866719c3fb@mail.gmail.com> <49bf44f10612181158m15366003r47a642f334959364@mail.gmail.com> <20061218223710.777bd0c0@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> <20061218230333.GE18832@garbanzo> <8a0028260612181518q419f3367r3aceb5a95dfa4a77@mail.gmail.com> <20061219100545.486bdde6@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> X-Archives-Salt: 9c4bc84e-2319-4cc6-a2cc-6f8bec58ee35 X-Archives-Hash: dfbd18575023902501245c3ca4d77c07 On 19/12/06, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 23:18:19 +0000, Jeff Rollin wrote: > > > On 18/12/06, John J. Foster > > > > > It may, but you are confusing cause and effect. A distro with more > > > > developers should be a better distro, and should have more users. > > > > > > > Well, Microsoft has proven that theory wrong ;-> > > Windows is not a distro. The development model is completely different. > > On the other hand, Windows has more developers and users than any Linux > distro, so by the original argument, it must be much better... > > > Indeed. In fact Fred Brooks, (In "The Mythical Man Month", > > specifically cited MS-DOS as one of the computing projects that > > "people don't get excited about" - for the very reason you and he > > cites, that throwing more developers at a project will not only fail > > to improve it, and improve it faster, but will slow it down and make > > it buggier. > > Eric Raymond explained why this doesn't apply to open source development > in "The Cathedral and the Bazaar". > > I haven't read it, BUT, in my understanding you still have to have "the right people". Yes, people can download (e.g.) the linux kernel and alter it willy nilly, but unless linus and the rest of the core kernel team (no capital letters) think it's a good idea, they will not integrate it. Jeff. http://latedeveloperbasketcase.blogspot.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list