Firefox Developer on Recruitment Policy

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

Comments

Re:Then what exactly is Open ?

[Anonymous Coward]

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

Re:Then what exactly is Open ?

[Anonymous Coward]

if they get too elitst.. just start your own branch.

... and don't accept any submissions from them - that'll show the bastards, eh?

Re:obligatory link

[gowen]

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.

Re:They set themselves up in a Catch-22

[wild_berry]

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

Re:obligatory link

[zCyl]

this isn't redundant, you stupid moderator

Technically, posting a mirror is informative redundancy. :)

Re:obligatory link

[Phillip Birmingham]

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?