Re: Whatever happened to BS-12?

From: paul c <toledobythesea_at_oohay.ac>
Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 19:29:00 GMT
Message-ID: <0yAjh.515504$1T2.238451@pd7urf2no>

David Fetter wrote:
> paul c <toledobythesea_at_oohay.ac> wrote:
>

>>paul c wrote:
>>
>>>jlfoster wrote:
>>>
>>
>>The reason I think this is a good way to go about things isn't that
>>I think the developers are necessarily smarter, they are just fewer
>>but more focussed and varied incoherent competing approaches are
>>minimized that way.  Contrast with the typical open-source project.

>
>
> I'm not going to, but since you're smearing "the typical open-source
> project," you'll be able to characterize one, characterize the kind of
> project you're contrasting it with, and then show how PostgreSQL is an
> example of the former.
>
>

>>I remember a teenage postgresql developer giving a presentation
>>which concerned mods that I thought were extremely dubious.

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>
> Name the developer, point to the mods, and explain why you think they
> were dubious. Then show how they got into the PostgreSQL code.
>
>

>>His father was in the audience video-taping him.

>
>
> So Open Source developers are teenagers showing off for daddy? Got
> any other unsubstantiated smears you'd like to spread here?
>
> Cheers,
> Dave.

Heh, that sounds like an apparatchik talking.

p Received on Sun Dec 24 2006 - 13:29:00 CST