On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Chris Koerner <[email protected]> wrote:

> If the source wasn't in good enough shape then I don't think its
> unreasonable to believe that the compiled binary robustness might
> be tenuous, unless you think they just haven't put enough inline comments.


Really? I find this statement a bit naive...

The code is working as expected but when you are talking about API's exposed
in an entire operating system, it's not very hard for me to imagine that
there might be a lot of pieces that need to be refactored and documented
before I want to expose them to hundreds of thousands of developers. There
are also parts that you will want to remove or obfuscate, you will need to
create a specific OS distribution, transfer from one repo to another, etc...

Deciding to ship the product first and then the source second sounds
perfectly natural to me.

-- 
Cédric

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