On Sun, 2007-07-29 at 03:35 -0700, UNIX admin wrote: > > One could argue that since the code is written by > > volunteers it would be > > highly hypocritical to pass judgement and yet the > > individual making the > > statements doing very little in contribution to > > improving the 'code > > quality'. > > So what if the code is written by volunteers? We're all volunteers > here. I write code on a voluntary basis too, but doesn't give me an > excuse to be sloppy, write unportable code, write unclean code, code > that doesn't scale, and just generally be an arrogant moron with the > "it works for me on my Linux system, you have the source code, fix it > yourself" attitude. > > It's a matter of pride to deliver a quality product that "just works" > and doesn't break something else.
That might work for you but but for those who volunteer their focus is on their platform of choice - if it happens to work on others then its a bonus, but unless they're getting something in return for supporting and maintaining support for other platforms, I hardly blame them. And you rant about Schilly - the day when I see him single handedly write a big complex piece of software like KDE or GNOME and it is portable to all platforms out of the box, then you can start being critical. Matthew _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
