"Open source developers don't make backups, they ..."
and received several very good answers:
"... make branches." [Heya Gosper]
"... know that a re-write every now and again is good for the design." [Adam Hardy]
"... either create nonbreakable software or they love big time to work all night long when their application crashes." [Koni Roth]
"... just keep a spare pair of trousers by their computer." [Adam Hardy]
And, of course, the expected answer:
"... they upload it via ftp and let the world mirror it," as attributed to Linus Torvalds.
There were several entries of the expected answers. The winner arbitrary selected from these is ... Denis of BestWay.net
As a special bonus, we also selected a winner from the "unexpected" answers ... Heya Gosper.
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NEXT:
What famous (or perhaps infamous) computer scientist advises:
"When you've got a bug, don't fix it. Write another piece of code to recognize that it's about to happen and head it off."
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The winner will be selected at random (or at least arbitrarily) from the correct responses. [The correct response being the one I expected =:)]
The contest will run until Friday, October 17, 2003, 23:59:59, so everyone has a chance to participate.
The lucky winner selected from the correct responses will receive a signed copy of Struts in Action.
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If you have an interesting science fiction or computer science quote that is hard to google, please send it to me. The first to suggest a quote that we use also wins!
-Ted.
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-- Ted Husted, Junit in Action - <http://www.manning.com/massol/>, Struts in Action - <http://husted.com/struts/book.html>, JSP Site Design - <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=1861005512>.
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