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_at_pd7urf2no>
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> 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.
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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.
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> So Open Source developers are teenagers showing off for daddy? Got
> any other unsubstantiated smears you'd like to spread here?
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> Cheers,
> Dave.
Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 19:29:00 GMT
Message-ID: <0yAjh.515504$1T2.238451_at_pd7urf2no>
David Fetter wrote:
> paul c <toledobythesea_at_oohay.ac> wrote:
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>>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.
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> 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.
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>>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.
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>>His father was in the audience video-taping him.
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> 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 - 20:29:00 CET