> > Stumbled on this....a good read imo: http://apcmag.com/node/6735/ > >What was it that you found interesting about that? What did you learn? >Do you see Open Source as better or worse after you read the article? > >That type of story - someone fixes something, everyone fights over it, >rejected, accepted, modified, thrown away, rewritten, endlessly >debated, hurt feelings, someone storms off, patch rewritten, results >improved - seems to happen all over, whether it's kernel patchs or >zoning board decisions.
The maddening common human unwillingness to look at what is going on in one's own mileu objectively is what I get out of all such stories. It's easy for anybody to justify what they do with some variation on, "Well, the people I work with thing we're doing the right thing, and what I'm doing makes me feel good, so who cares what anybody outside the process thinks?" People do this ALL the time. This is why everybody hates whistle-blowers, even though it is virtually impossible to argue, from an objective viewpoint, that a whistle-blower who has his facts right has done anything but make a positive contribution to the general welfare. Me--I always side with the people who buck the in-group and go public with the ways in which the in-group is neglecting the needs of the much larger out-group whom they claim to be serving. Because in-groups seek to meet the needs of their members far more often than they seek to meet the needs of those they claim to serve, and they do that ALL THE TIME. Ken Dibble www.stic-cil.org _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
