On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 10:24 AM, Max Spevack <mspevack@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 25 Jun 2008, Michael Schwendt wrote: > >> "To come out of Red Hat" means it is something that is based on prior work >> within Red Hat or something with a dependency on Red Hat. Add to that >> proposals, ideas, plans, restructuring, results from hall-way discussions, >> results from internal meetings, requests from internal departments, things >> that are set in stone already and just wait for FPB to give the obligatory >> +1. > > FWIW, if I had $1 for every time in the last 2.5 years I told someone > *inside* Red Hat: > > "You can't do $FOO in Fedora without first getting the permission of the > Fedora Board. Asking me is not enough. The Fedora Board is Fedora's > executive team. I can tell you what I think, but I don't make the decisions > all by myself." > > then I would be living on the beach somewhere and the only emails I would > send would be to my banker in Zurich. > Heck.. if you got $1 for the amount you say it to people outside of Red Hat you would still be pretty well off. The big issue is that unless you are actively inside an organization, your brain will morph it into an uniform ball that everyone who works/joins/participates/agrees with is the same as the worst and best person you have ever met in that organization. Humans filter every comment they here to match either your pro or negative response to something. So people inside and outside tend to believe everyone at Red Hat drinks the same kool-aid, talks in uniform, and would all wear matching clothes but it would give away the brain-plants. Humans also want to deal with one person which is why they tend towards dictatorial governments or organizations. The less a human has to think about other things (politics, getting food, etc etc) allows them more time to enjoy life (be it coding or watching tv). So Max is leader, and people have an innate desire to allow him to tell them what to do or that he should tell others what to do. -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- BSD/GNU/Linux How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice" _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
