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Firefox Developer on Recruitment Policy

Posted by michael on from the cathedral-or-bazaar dept.

wikinerd writes "A Firefox developer talks about the project's controversial invitation-only developer recruitment policy and explains why Firefox will never grow up."

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  1. Re:Then what exactly is Open ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hopefully firefox will not go into that Elitist arena which blocks out young developers...

    You were NOT invited to make that comment, if we want to hear from you we'll call you and then you can speak, otherwise just keep reading and shut up, mkay?

    Yours,
    The FireTrucks Team,
    Peak View,
    CA 31337

  2. Re:Then what exactly is Open ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    if they get too elitst.. just start your own branch.
    ... and don't accept any submissions from them - that'll show the bastards, eh?
  3. Re:obligatory link by gowen · · Score: 5, Funny
    But it is unethical to post such a link under your own username
    Not really, because as a rule the concepts of ethical / unethical behaviour apply only to contexts that actually mean something, as opposed to the pointless accumulation of worthless slashdot karma, which means absolutely diddly-squat to anyone with a sense of proportion.
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  4. Re:They set themselves up in a Catch-22 by wild_berry · · Score: 5, Funny

    Because the meritocracy that runs Slashdot won't accept patches..?

  5. Re:obligatory link by zCyl · · Score: 4, Funny

    this isn't redundant, you stupid moderator

    Technically, posting a mirror is informative redundancy. :)

  6. Re:pet peeve by vally_the_poo · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hey man, it's not a bug, it's a feature !
    Imagine how many times you have to enter your credit card number...
    I for one, can never remind my cerdit card number so it's very comfort when firefox fills it for me, especially when I go to internet cafés where it may be dangerous to get out your card !

  7. Re:obligatory link by tinkerton · · Score: 3, Funny

    some may think 'stupid' + 'moderator' is a pleonasm. A redundant pleonasm.

  8. Re:pet peeve by gothzilla · · Score: 3, Funny

    What he's referring to is the ability to leave autocomplete on, but making it "forget" credit card numbers.

    On slashdot, if you say "When I'm driving around in my car, this buzzer won't turn off and it's really annoying." everyone will respond with "Well then just turn the car off."

  9. Bureaucratic by Nimey · · Score: 3, Funny

    I hereby move that the word "bureaucratic" be struck from /. usage because nobody can fscking spell it. Same for "ridiculous".

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  10. Re:obligatory link by Phillip+Birmingham · · Score: 4, Funny

    But it is unethical to post such a link under your own username rather than anonymous... this way, it's kinda karma whoring, which is probably why the moderator modded you down.

    What has Slashdot come to, when people will try to whore Karma by actually, you know, posting something useful?

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