Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf wrote:
Am 15.02.2007 um 15:32 schrieb Jeff Teunissen:
[snip]
Why, why WHY in the name of all that is good should anyone in a
Free Software
project act professional?
Because we want GNUstep to be successful? Because that means GNUstep
has to be used in professional environments for that? Because we
gain, given GNUstep is used professionally, better code review,
better stability, more applications developed using GNUstep, more
testing, lesser bugs.
Flat-out wrong. What is being referred to as "Professionalism" is
something
that human beings do not do on their own. "Professionalism" is the
bloodless
rote stupidity enforced in corporations from the top down, from a
world where
the whole job is about not giving anyone something bad to say about
you.
That's machinery, not people. Real boats rock.
It's not a company, it's a hobby.
That attitude of some currently shows in GNUstep. Some professional
developers I talked to regard GNUstep as a playtoy of grown up boys
because of the overall quality. If for instance the Apache guys had
the same attitude nobody would (and could) use Apache
(professionally).
Wrong again. If the Apache guys weren't having fun, we'd all be
using the NCSA
(or even the crappy CERN) httpd. If a certain Finnish grad student
wasn't
having fun with his terminal program, we wouldn't have Linux...and
whaddaya
know, he had some flame wars along the way. There are technical
flame wars
aplenty in any healthy project, arguing (and often heatedly) about
technical
differences of opinion. And guess what? The projects aren't successful
_despite_ this, but partially because of it.
The best way to destroy a project is to make it seem like a job.