Re: [ck] Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1

[Martin Steigerwald]

Am Sonntag 29 Juli 2007 schrieb Diego Calleja:

> > This time it was Con being the Mindcraft catalyst. But he's on *our*
> > side and he got beat down by the Linux kernel community. That's the
> > tragedy here. He was beaten down by the very people he was trying to
> > help out and support. It should have been handled better.
>
> Get real: I don't the linux development has always been "friendly". The
> idea of a "GNU-hippie community" where everybody is good and helps
> others and shares their pots is what the Sun bloggers seem to think
> that opensolaris should resemble, but it doesn't matches the real
> world.

Actually I have seen friendly communities around Linux and free software. 
Like the KDE project, the ck patchset mailing list community, the 
TuxOnIce aka suspend2 community, the SGI XFS community, the Bazaar 
community, quite some parts of the Debian community just to name a few.

So I know that it can be different. I know that its inaccurate to talk 
about the whole Linux kernel community. I had quite friendly contacts 
with core Linux developers like with Ingo (yes, with Ingo!;-) or Greg 
Kroah-Hartman.

So what would be wrong with looking at how this worked out and why and how 
it would be possible to avoid loosing a talented developer?

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Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de
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