On Sat, 13 Oct 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
But at the same time, just accepting that there are people who will potentially never really be productive members of society (whether "society" is git or something bigger), is probably a good idea. They aren't worth complaining about: they don't generally tend to take anything away from the community unless the community itself reacts negatively to them.
I'll also point out that being a 'productive member of society' may have a wider definition then you may think initially.
is a sysadmin who never contribures a line of code, but switches hundreds of servers to linux and assists friends in migrating to Linux a productive member? he doesn't contribute any code, so some people would say no, but in spreading the use he is increasing the number of potential contributers so others would say yes.
keep this in mind before you assume that someone isn't worth anything. David Lang - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
