On Thu, 7 Aug 2003 21:23:20 +0100
Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> wrote:
> > Of course that isn't true, I was just showing the farce of your
> > statement. Obviously you want people who like the project to contribute.
> You have failed miserably at understanding my statement. I do not want
> people to contribute because they "like the project". This is not
> "obvious"; moreover, it's wrong.
Uh, no. You have 3 possible pools.
1: Someone likes Debian.
2: Someone dislikes Debian.
3: Someone hasn't formed an opinion of Debian or doesn't care about Debian.
Do you want contributions from 2 or 3? IE, someone who dislikes it or
someone who is uninformed or ambivalent to the whole process?
> None of which implies that they have to "hate" the project before
> joining.
Well, you've rejected the one category I think it would be logical to look
at. What's left is most likely and all that.
> Uhm, yes we can. Did you read what I wrote? We want people who will be
> unaffected by such things. Note that the fact that we self-select for
> such people is the cause, rather than the result, of this.
So, let me get this straight. You want people who will want to contribute
to a project which shuns them if they don't, shuns them if they do, expects
them to eat crap and like it. That about right?
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