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Behavioral standards in the free software community

Behavioral standards in the free software community

Posted Jun 8, 2006 7:10 UTC (Thu) by burki99 (subscriber, #17149)
Parent article: Behavioral standards in the free software community

To anyone who wants to draft such rules, I suggest to have a look at the ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct first. Not being an ACM-member myself, I still tell my clients that these are the rules they can expect me to follow.


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Behavioral standards in the free software community

Posted Jun 8, 2006 11:13 UTC (Thu) by macc (subscriber, #510) [Link]

See Rules as _observed_ sensible behaviour.

Thus rules can be guidelines to successfull
interaction but they should not be _the law_.

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