"The problem with managing those kinds of folks is that many (most perhaps) think they are primadonnas"
No, Mark. Only a very few folks are like that. The rest are a typical cross section of the rest of humanity. You may even know a dev and not be aware of it. For example, my brother-in-law has been contributing to various flavo(u)rs of BSD for nearly as long as I have. I've known him for over two decades. It was only last year that we discovered we were both kernel devs ... The subject had quite simply never come up.
The primadonnas are the proverbial bad apples ...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
