Behavioral standards in the free software community [LWN.net]

Behavioral standards in the free software community

Posted Jun 8, 2006 13:20 UTC (Thu) by stevan (subscriber, #4342)
Parent article: Behavioral standards in the free software community

Dare I suggest that we don't need codes, we need humanity. The name
Ubuntu and the practice of ubuntu springs to mind - most readers of LWN
will be familiar with the meaning of Ubuntu by now, but the wikipedia
article are there if you are not.

One person's code is another's shackles, but we're all human, and we all
benefit from other humans.

Stevan

PS - a good example human perspective is the "wrong" spelling of
behavioural in the title!

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Behavioral standards in the free software community

Posted Jun 19, 2006 17:10 UTC (Mon) by jimwelch (guest, #178) [Link]

>> Ubuntu
Interesting example! How many were insulted by their choice of a graphic? How many were upset with those who where insulted?

Meanwhile happening elsewhere...
The education system suffers from the same code problem. Some parts of the system are "protected" by law by Tenure to stop politics controlling and bad management abuses. Now it is next to impossible to enforce any code of conduct against any teacher. Without some control your get mediocrity and dangerous behavoiur, with too much control you get "play it safe" i.e., the sun revolves around the earth.

I am not sure there is a solution without problems.