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echo: bbs_carnival
to: Alan Ianson
from: Shawn Highfield
date: 2006-02-10 12:34:32
subject: Re: open sourcing your products

> SH> It'll happen. :)  Maybe it's too much to do all at once and I should
 > Yep, no need to rush anything, just see how it goes.

  That's pretty much the way I do everything now.

 > Nothing gets into debian stable until it's been well tested. Sometimes
 > I find that just as bad as it is good, but I guess we can't have it
 > both ways.

  True enough, I ran Debian for a long time, but we switched to Gentoo as 
it's so much easier to handle installs, when your building servers.  At least 
for us.

 > I did the gentoo install a few times, very impressive what they have
 > done. I went with debian because everything is already built (if you
 > want it to be) and I'd be constantly tweaking something like gentoo,
 > that may or may not be a bad thing.. :)

  Yeah we get it to a good place, and just keep up to date with weekly 
emerges of the existing packages.  If the client needs something else it 
costs. ;)

 > Yep, they just don't have the same investment, I always found managing
 > people to be the difficult part of a business. One bad one can undo
 > the work of three good ones.

  Very true!  We've seen it many times just with our students in the store, 
we try to keep co-op students on afterwards and sometimes it works out great 
other times, they are a complete disaster!

Shawn

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