Re: [tlug] Cultural differences

[Attila Kinali <attila@example.com>]

On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 17:57:57 +0700
Nguyen Vu Hung <vuhung16plus@example.com> wrote:

> BSD: Highly skilled developers, average age is higher than Linux's
> Linux: New and young community.

I'd like to disagree with you here.
Although BSD has been around for a longer time, the average age
doesn't seem to be that much different nowadays (it was different
10y ago). Mostly due to the fact, that people get a job, married,
have kids, etc and dont have enough time to work on their pet project
anymore.

Also I dont think that the BSD developers are more skilled than
the Linux developers. Rather the contrary (there is too much closed
mind share in the BSD community that regards everything that comes
from the Linux side as pure evil). It is true though, that the
Linux community is a lot more open for the young and unskilled.
It is very easy to setup a linux project and get it known in
the community with hardly knowning what you are doing (just
have a look at all those 1-2 developer projects on sourceforge).
Ofcourse these projects might grow and become more sophisticated
and end up ruling the world (as has happend with MPlayer, where
the code written early on is so ugly that noone wants to touch it,
even now).

			Attila Kinali

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