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Open source: dangerous to computing education? (opensource.com)Open source: dangerous to computing education? (opensource.com)Posted Feb 17, 2010 23:12 UTC (Wed) by Tobu (subscriber, #24111)In reply to: Open source: dangerous to computing education? (opensource.com) by viro Parent article: Open source: dangerous to computing education? (opensource.com) This was indeed prompted by personal experience, though I haven't been discouraged yet. I wanted to make a general point, which you aren't particularly addressing: driving the non-flameproof people out isn't good. I acknowledge most people don't do that, I'm just pissed off at those who do.
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YMMV Posted Feb 19, 2010 0:25 UTC (Fri) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link] I wanted to make a general point, which you aren't particularly addressing: driving the non-flameproof people out isn't good. Well, that depends on the details of particular project to large degree. When you are driving non-flameproof people away you are usually increasing quality of code but also reduce number of volunteers capable of doing work. OpenBSD is great example of both trends. This means that there are exist optimal heat of flames on mailing list - and this temperature changes from project to project. What is acceptable and desirable on LKML will be totally unacceptable on mailing list for some cooking program.
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