Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 13th Mar 2007 22:50 UTC, submitted by Bryan Østergaard
"Triggered by recent examples of bad behavior and dissatisfaction among developers and users alike, the Gentoo Council has drafted a new Code of Conduct that will be enforced for both developers and users. The draft of the Code of Conduct is currently being discussed on the Gentoo-dev mailing list."
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2005-10-20
Who says that Microsoft( I mean big established software companies in general) do not have infightings. They have and have lots of it, however, they do not have a dev mailing list through which the fights ( very strong difference of opinion) is made public. The corporate culture is like this. I can say this as I am part of this culture. If you have a difference with your peer, or even your manager and it is known to the HR, they make sure that one of you is shifted to a different department so that you don't face each other.
Its the old theory, Out of sight out of mind.
They simply do not wash dirty linen in public.
Ofcourse, this decent arrangement happens when both the parties are willing for such a settlement.
Sadly there is no such thing possible in opensource.
The mailing lists reveal all and reveal to all.
Due to this big difference, I believe we should have a code of conduct in opensource world.