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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.caldera.com!enews.sgi.com!news.corp.sgi.com!news.sgi.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!mr.net!supernews.com!news.iquest.net!not-for-mail From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@freebsd.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.sys.sgi.misc Subject: Re: no such thing as a "general user community" Date: Thu, 03 Apr 1997 08:22:32 -0500 Organization: John S. Dyson's home machine Lines: 16 Message-ID: <3343AF18.41C67EA6@freebsd.org> References: <331BB7DD.28EC@net5.net> <5g9hjp$api@flea.best.net> <5gmb58$6jd$1@news.clinet.fi> <5gn3ig$83d@flea.best.net> <5goqrq$5ak$1@news.clinet.fi> <5hd29s$e7t@fido.asd.sgi.com> <333C1614.ABD@sgi01.grn.aera.com> <5hhv1k$jh9@fido.asd.sgi.com> <333E3530.794B@sgi01.grn.aera.com> <333EA3EF.41C67EA6@consys.com> <333EE416.ABD322C@FreeBSD.org> <5hn00k$dio@fido.asd.sgi.com> <333F45A6.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org> <5hpolu$9t2@fido.asd.sgi.com> <3340CC28.167EB0E7@FreeBSD.org> <5hveu5$rhj$1@harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: dyson.iquest.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38350 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6566 comp.sys.sgi.misc:29639 Mike McGaughey wrote: > > Despite the `committee design' thing, FreeBSD manages to be pretty > stable and coherent. It doesn't matter to me how many people are > arguing about how stuff should work. They're not still arguing by > the time they reach my hard drive. Thus, to us outsiders that just > run the damn thing, the FreeBSD core team + contributors collectively > constitute a pretty good `leader'. > On FreeBSD, we give responsibility to various individuals. It is like a committee structure, but we allow groups or individuals work together. When we do the committee design thing, it usually complicates things significantly. John