[OpenIndiana-discuss] [illumos-Discuss] branding for illumos/openindiana

Gregory Youngblood gregory at youngblood.me
Thu Jun 23 01:19:22 UTC 2011


On Jun 22, 2011, at 5:48 PM, Richard L. Hamilton wrote:

> I must be an elitist pig or something, but I don't see that as a
> problem.  What good do sheer numbers of users do if most of them
> are too clueless to figure out hardware compatibility?  Scarcely one
> in 10,000 of that sort would be able to write a line of code anyway.
> If you've got to play this grow or perish game, then play it with
> people who bring some _clue_ to the table.  Until you've got critical
> mass of them, the rest are just bandwidth thieves anyway.  Probably
> oxygen thieves too, but that's just my social Darwinism mood speaking.
> (Oops, was that my "outer voice"? :-)

By the way, this guy I mentioned - he's a developer. So, yes, he can write a line of code.

He would have been a good addition to the community and not an "oxygen thie[f]".




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