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From: Ethan Grammatikidis <eekee57@fastmail.fm>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Question about Plan9 project
Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 13:38:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090719133802.55b102fb.eekee57@fastmail.fm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A62332E.7060102@tecmav.com>

On Sat, 18 Jul 2009 22:40:14 +0200
Adriano Verardo <a.verardo@tecmav.com> wrote:

> Unbelievable but true, a driver (or a patch to a driver or whatever
> else) done by an
> italian is not considered as good as the stuff from the original site.
> It is a psychological problem  I  have  often to  face with.

Open-source newbies often display the same problem, & not just Italians at all. ;) It's a widely-promoted attitude that stuff which does not come from The Official Source can't be right. There are some facts behind the view, but overall it's a bad leap of logic. What it is is good for established business.

--
Ethan Grammatikidis

Those who are slower at parsing information must
necessarily be faster at problem-solving.



  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-19 12:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-18 15:10 Adriano Verardo
2009-07-18 16:18 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2009-07-18 16:25 ` Anthony Sorace
2009-07-18 16:59   ` Uriel
2009-07-18 17:59     ` ron minnich
2009-07-18 19:29       ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2009-07-18 19:37         ` Corey
2009-07-18 19:50           ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2009-07-18 20:01             ` J.R. Mauro
2009-07-18 20:11             ` Corey
2009-07-18 23:21       ` Corey
2009-07-20 12:16       ` Iruata Souza
2009-07-18 20:40   ` Adriano Verardo
2009-07-19 12:38     ` Ethan Grammatikidis [this message]
2009-07-18 16:39 ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-18 18:35 ` dorin bumbu
2009-07-18 18:49   ` J.R. Mauro
2009-07-18 19:09   ` Adriano Verardo

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