To the Armchair Directors

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Mon Mar 15 09:57:17 PST 2004


Gary,

Nobody in FreeBSD has the right to annoy developers by whining at them.

Everybody on the other hand, has an _obligation_ to work constructively
to improve FreeBSD.

Here is a simple litmus test:

	If your message contains the two words "somebody should"
	next to each other in that order, then it is very likely
	in the first (ie: wrong) category.

If you feel something should be done, then do it or pay somebody
to do it, don't pontificate that the nonexistant committer "somebody"
should do it.

Poul-Henning

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