Re: long term goals of debian membership

[Neal H Walfield <neal@cs.uml.edu>]

>  Glenn> Similarly if there are 60 workers with shovels wanting to dig a whole,
>  Glenn> im sure they would realise that all of their shovels wont fit down the
>  Glenn> hole at one time and the majority of them will either have of a rest
>  Glenn> (leaning on the shovel relaxing watching the traffic cruise by), or
>  Glenn> assist in other ways (one might hold the post thats to be put in).
> 
> 	You mean that there is no value to management? Well, most
>  likely no work shall get done, since no one would like to be not
>  resting, or people would squabble over who gets tos show off first;
>  there sall be complaints of malingering, (for those who always rest),
>  there shall be a dozen people hanging about giving (conflicting)
>  advice, there shall be the detractors critiquing the technique,
>  pissing the workers off, then some one shall demonstrate how their
>  technique is better, and there shall be a great big hassle about
>  whose hole digging technique is better.

I think your argument is quite flawed.

There are not many people involved with Debian who do not want to be
here (in some form of another).  The only way  greater than 90% of
Debian maintainers get paid is through their ego or some other non-bread
winning way.  Again, no one forces anyone to be here and when someone no
longer want to be here, that person leaves.

-Neal

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Neal H Walfield
University of Massachusetts at Lowell
neal@walfield.org or neal@cs.uml.edu