Re: Intolerable CVS behaviour

[George <jirka 5z com>]

On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 01:53:50PM -0500, Miguel de Icaza wrote:
> > ACLs are a way to protect the elite.  They divide up the hackers.  They
> > separate people according to some sort of an arbitrary meassure.  All that
> > ACLs achieve is build both physical and psychological walls around projects,
> > so that you will get less contributions.
> 
> Please read my previous message, in which I explain why ACLs are
> intended just as a precaution mechanism.

And laws for censorship in communism were a precaucion mechanism as well.

> Also, the Linux kernel has the ultimate ACL in place, and that has not
> stopped it from growing ever.

Kernel is a different culture completely.  GNOME is a far more distributed
project, I mean we can't even agree on what exactly is gnome precisely.

George

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