"pear-shaped people"
You should take this on the road. That was funny! When you said that I'm
reminded of most all the hard core computer geeks that actually have a
"pear-shape" or like me, a pear-shape is slowly forming.
Thanks for the entertainment in a very heated and serious discussion!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeremy Allison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Whit Blauvelt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2008 5:35 PM
Subject: Re: [Samba] Re: winbind - not ready for prime time?
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 06:22:42PM -0500, Whit Blauvelt wrote:
Jeremy,
I think I can see the blind spot at play here: The signal genius of the
core
members of the Samba project is in being able to take a
poorly-documented,
haphazardly-designed interface - Microsoft's - and nonetheless make
something that works with it. Samba's developers, of all the open-source
project engineers, have that special sort of keen intuition which renders
poor documentation almost superfluous. Like most human beings, you can't
see
why what's obvious enough for you shouldn't come as easily to other
"normal"
people.
Meanwhile the rest of the open source world, not being so perfectly
practiced at the arcane art of deciphering opaque APIs, more naturally
appreciates the importance of clear, complete documentation, and
generally
gets on with producing it.
You're in the wrong place here it seems. You're looking for a *product*,
with neat manuals, a support contract and sales-people in sharp suits
driving BMW's :-).
This is a *technology*, created by pear-shaped people all living in
our parent's basements :-).
There are companies out there who take our technology and turn it
into a product. Many of us even work for them :-).
Jeremy.
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