Re: Profile of Linux contributors

["Steve Poling" <sdp@xxxxxxx>]

Nah, they got it all wrong.

all open source programmers are a cross between Tom Selleck and Nicolas
Cage, with drop-dead blondes throwing themselves at us, begging us to father
their children. we just sneer at them and tell them to come back when they
can analyze a core dump without a hex calculator. and we drink our martinis
shaken, not stirred.

<grin>

steve



-----Original Message-----
From: Robert G. Brown <bob@acm.org>
To: klug@klug.armintl.com <klug@klug.armintl.com>
Date: Friday, October 29, 1999 4:45 PM
Subject: Profile of Linux contributors


>
>Next time someone mentions that Linux is written by a crowd that we don't
>need to take seriously, point them to:
>
>http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2384154,00.html?chkpt=zdhpnew
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>or if they're really serious-minded:
>
>http://metalab.unc.edu/osrt/develpro.html
>
>This rather firmly debunks the notion of Linux developers as belonging to
>some stereotype or another, such as "pimply-faced-15 year-olds with no
>life", or "super programmers like Linus Torvalds", or even "Idealists like
>Richard Stallman or Eric Raymond". Actually, all of these are
>generally offered up as perjoratives. They are harmful portayals; the
>gives some better insight into the characteristics of active members of
>the contributing Linux community....
>                                                      Regards,
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