Hi, I joined before Alex, so according to your theory I should hate him, but it's not the case :-) There were small flamewars previously also -- but you have to take in account that project was smaller back in that time, I think.
Anyway of course it's also a style, and I personally speak with people in their own style - I don't know why, but it happens to me naturally. Official? Ok, we speak official. Inofficially, friendly? No problem. Arguing - great (unless it starts hurting people, then it's bad). I like to argue sometimes, but of course I mean polite arguing. Like about politics with Steven (Stalin vs. Hitler is my favorite topic), about religion with Alex might be. All people have different point of views, and I respect them, and I like to learn something new during arguing - that's not bad.
As for voting, I like KJK very much:
Is the abuse of voting lame and boring? [] Yes
WBR, Aleksey. P.S. Please, really, getting all this stuff(read: s..t) into mailing list is not a good for project's image. Many of us have skype, icq, emails, etc. It should be quite enough. And we have #reactos at last/ at first :) And one more thing - I miss GvG in #reactos ;)
On Dec 4, 2005, at 9:35 PM, Nate DeSimone wrote:
I've been reading this list for about 2.5 years now, I have stuff as far back in my archive as when RMS posted to the channel regarding GPL issues with drivers and even before that, certainly before Alex even joined the project, and I have to say that NEVER in that history have I seen straight flaming between developers like this on the public list. Now correct me if I'm wrong, but it looks like its some of the older developers all being really annoyed with a newer developer (aka Alex,) while the newer developers while still annoyed deal with him. Believe me when I say this, I have been on a team before where the old guys got fed up with the new guys, and it only took a few a short time for the team to fail, with the old guys forking off and making their own new group and the new guys doing the same. Project forking in the case of ReactOS would be fatal, it would mean tons of duplicated effort and years added to the time frame for a working product. And quite frankly from what I've seen it appears that Alex has enough people behind him as well as technical ability to successfully operate an active fork, I'm not saying he would do this I'm just saying he has the ability if he wanted to. I personally think that this is very unprofessional behavior, this should be resolved over something like skype not a public channel originally setup to aid COLLABORATION. You guys know that there are people from MSDN that read this list and post about it in their blogs right? Anyway guys, my point here is this isn't just the fault of Alex, it is EVERYONES fault, work it out, I want to see ReactOS 1.0, not ReactOS 0.5 and <reactos fork name here> 0.5
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