On 2007-12-18, John Robson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> No, the fix should be at the root of the problem. > i.e. your licence?
The distros' practises. > Are you talking about Xinerama support here? - the mod which works fine, > doesn't cause probles on non Xineramra desktops It doesn't work fine. It can't. > but you have some bizarre > notion is amoral on some grounds I've never quite grasped? Morality is bullshit. Religion in disguise. > As you don't maintain a "stable" branch Utter and total BULLSHIT. Ion2 is the stable branch. But the idiots behind the distros think they know better than the author, which releases are stable -- meaning bug-free, not "static" as the distros apply the term. > I really don't know what your problem is with AA or udev: Correctly done > AA actually helps text AA makes text ugly, blurry, and unreadable, compared to decent unblurred screen fonts. It only helps with shoddy printer fonts--which are no good without hinting on present poor screen resolutions. But the herd just loves anti-aliasing and all other new/modern shine, and expects everyone else to do so too, and crams it down their eyes. > udev doesn't exactly kick up a stink. Try adjusting device permissions, symlink names, anything. It's pain compared to just chmod/chown/ln -s. The cryptic config files also change all the time in the distros, and it takes ages at boot. (Its designed hac a complete lack of understanding of the fundamentals of computer science, doing a linear search for the correct rules by executing 10000 lines of shell scripts, instead of constructing appropriate search trees.) > Ah - you're feeling opressed. Then again you seem to feel victimised by > most walks of life if your blog is anything to go by. I think that's > mostly how you view the world. Modern technology mostly sucks. > non-monoculturist? So you'll support xinerama, anti aliasing, udev now > will you? Rather than declaring them all to be anti-tuomo. No, I provide (preferrably abstract) mechanisms for others to support them. > So you're unable to take a shoddy patch and apply the correct fix to your > own code? That seems pretty feeble It's more work for me to maintain all that code. The FOSS herd has not yet grasped the two fundamental principles of maintainable software: modularity and abstraction (cf. abstract wchar_t and locale encoding vs. hard-coded UTF-8.) -- Tuomo
