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DATE | 2012-04-19 |
FROM | Paul Robert Marino
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SUBJECT | Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] The best top down mandate I've ever heard any
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From owner-hangout-outgoing-at-mrbrklyn.com Thu Apr 19 15:34:18 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: archive-at-mrbrklyn.com Delivered-To: archive-at-mrbrklyn.com Received: by www2.mrbrklyn.com (Postfix) id AF8175445E; Thu, 19 Apr 2012 15:34:18 -0400 (EDT) Delivered-To: hangout-outgoing-at-www2.mrbrklyn.com Received: by www2.mrbrklyn.com (Postfix, from userid 28) id 9E55854AEE; Thu, 19 Apr 2012 15:34:18 -0400 (EDT) Delivered-To: hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com Received: from mail-ob0-f172.google.com (mail-ob0-f172.google.com [209.85.214.172]) by www2.mrbrklyn.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 461805445E for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2012 15:34:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: by obbwd20 with SMTP id wd20so10256800obb.17 for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2012 12:34:07 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=ZiLUZKgU0hmjCvtsugwSyeCT3lTej3wtpwH8Y3uQz4o=; b=DgwKZ9r0MTLM7tPipblxq1d4UK4SLb2yD8yKZqW5aR0g3SS056ggoW0SDh3S6PB3xx XT7EyBHdQWB/BRi74b5qdnoqa44VXVRBglbNgXCbKcr+fPYE7/VHd9j+KtPXI+tv1XLP rA99AuTrGxCT/DDgEA72gAVM2jk/lFaA1ub68qBh66X3h0Ynrprhgh9co2fWTuq/LL/V EOTWszakZXeOTbqqN7I8BHb9OjdUIUy2YuKxZU83+QMpznHMc2T2Ln0yKawb5oBFuVBq 32wXO/p/v8T/uE0dU2kqLd6Rs9UzSk2PiEQaEAyZUUxLqpIuLTRDXqHsypJQUWoELPSx MtXw== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.182.12.98 with SMTP id x2mr4788296obb.46.1334864047712; Thu, 19 Apr 2012 12:34:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.182.62.135 with HTTP; Thu, 19 Apr 2012 12:34:07 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20120419190420.GA10632-at-horacrux> References: <20120419190420.GA10632-at-horacrux> Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 15:34:07 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] The best top down mandate I've ever heard any place I work From: Paul Robert Marino To: hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com Precedence: bulk Reply-To: hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com
That's exactly what finally convinced them to make that statement. Well that and from what I've been told the realization that the community might consist of hundreds or even thousands of users and programmers who are far better equipped as a group to provide better pier review and QA testing for changes to code than one or two internal developers think they understand it and all the possible consequences of the change.
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 02:02:59PM -0400, Paul Robert Marino wrote: >> It seams like they actually get how free software actually works, and >> that's encouraging that large companies that don't produce software >> themselves are starting to finally understand it. >> > the main benefit of sending patches back to upstream is that you no longe= r have > to support those in your work, reduced support costs. > good for them and the community. > > -- > | =A0.''`. =A0=3D=3D Debian GNU/Linux =3D=3D.| http://kevix.myopenid.com.= .....| > | : :' : =A0 =A0 The Universal OS....| mysite.verizon.net/kevin.mark/.| > | `. `' =A0 http://www.debian.org/.| http://counter.li.org [#238656]| > |___`-____Unless I ask to be CCd,.assume I am subscribed._________| > > Avoid contact with eyes.
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