Re: community trust
Marc Aurele La France <[email protected]>
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On Tue, 29 Apr 2003, Mike A. Harris wrote: > On Tue, 29 Apr 2003, Samium Gromoff wrote: > >KP Team > > Keith Packard 16.800 google hits > > Jim Gettys 16.400 google hits > > Alan Cox 145.000 google hits > >pro-KP realists > > Havoc Pennington 64.100 google hits > > Kendall Bennett 1.800 google hits > > Mike A. Harris 16.500 google hits > >XF86 BOD/core eager zealots - "the loudest" > > Rich Murphey 2.570 google hits > > David Dawes 6.830 google hits > > David Wexelblat 1.820 google hits > > Mark Voikovich 4.300 google hits > >XF86 pseudo neutral (yet bad) > > Alan Hourihane 6.150 google hits > > Egbert Eich 4.230 google hits > >so what`s about community trust? > A couple points: > 1) What the hell does the number of google hits a person's name > comes up as have to do with anything? It serves absolutely no > useful statistical purpose whatsoever. > 2) Your categorization of people above is also quite > non-representative of anything, useless and quite broken on many > levels. > Apologies to the rest of the list for semi-feeding the trolls. There's a much deeper aspect to this. What, pray tell, would make one think that I am spending time on XFree86 to win a popularity contest? Like it or not, XFree86 is a >>GIFT<< of people's time, and those who would want more of it should go back to their mothers for that ethics lesson they obviously missed. Marc. +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | Marc Aurele La France | work: 1-780-492-9310 | | Computing and Network Services | fax: 1-780-492-1729 | | 352 General Services Building | email: [email protected] | | University of Alberta +-----------------------------------+ | Edmonton, Alberta | | | T6G 2H1 | Standard disclaimers apply | | CANADA | | +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ XFree86 Core Team member. ATI driver and X server internals.