Re: Whatever happened to BS-12?

From: David Fetter <david_at_fetter.org>
Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 13:01:50 -0600
Message-ID: <W_CdnVjARqgDUxPYnZ2dnUVZ_h2pnZ2d_at_speakeasy.net>

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.

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.

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