On Wednesday 12 November 2003 14:00, Dan Monjar wrote: > [Balmer] also questioned the notion that the open source's community > approach to fixing problems was superior to Microsoft's. "Why should > code submitted randomly by some hacker in China and distributed by > some open source project, why is that, by definition, better?"
For a lot of reasons. But what floors me is that Balmer exposes himself as a xenophobe. What's the matter with Chinese hackers? I watch the lksctp project. Nothing gets accepted from random people. The project participants are well known. The new people are kept on a short leash. The developer cross-check each other. lksctp is an example of a kernel project with sponsership from IBM. Anybody in the world is free to look at the code submissions. Judging from the names of the lkstcp developers, I'd say that people of Chinese decent have contributed to the project. Balmer needs to go to PR refresher classes. US corporate execs talking like bigots is embarrasing. -- Mike Mueller 324881 (08/20/2003) Make clockwise circles with your right foot. Now use your right hand to draw the number "6" in the air. -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
