Agree :-) Sent from my iPhone
> On 22 Dec 2018, at 11:26, Jan Bessai <jan.bes...@tu-dortmund.de> wrote: > >> On 12/22/18 8:57 AM, Hiltjo Posthuma wrote: >>> On Sat, Dec 22, 2018 at 01:55:51PM +1300, Martin Tournoij wrote: >>> [...] >>> I wrote a brief article about "Open source DIY ethics", which I think >>> describes the mentality of open source development for many (in the >>> suckless community it's more explicit, but I think it's hardly contained >>> to suckless): >>> [...] >> >> [...] I liked the article and the Dutch bicycle example :) [...] > > Thanks for the article. I also enjoyed it. > > You might add that keeping things small is crucial for the described way > of operating. Otherwise things are impossible to understand for casual > contributors. Suckless embodies this as a core value. In your analogy > you can DIY fix bicycles, but DIY fixing airbags in cars is probably a > bad idea (unless you are resourceful enough to do crash tests). With > software, browser engines are a good example: surf currently uses > Webkit, because writing browser engines is inherently complicated. Just > as with cars, many things are complicated instead of complex, because of > complicated standards. >
