Re: Does anybody still use `starship'?

Robert Moskowitz <rgm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> · Sun, 9 Jan 2022 11:33:27 -0500



    On 1/9/22 09:27, George N. White III
      wrote:

    
        On Sun, 9 Jan 2022 at 07:24, Igor Raits <igor.raits@xxxxxxxxx>
          wrote:

        
          [...]

            Personally, I'd love to have more people working on
            packaging (and

            most importantly keeping up-to-date) Rust crates / apps but
            I think

            this is not so realistic :)

          
        Growth in the numbers of users of open source software.has
          outpaced
        the numbers working on development, documentation, and
          packaging.
        I suspect many users are blindly following recipes found on
          the internet
        or using code written but someone who is no longer with the
          organisation.
        In economics this falls under the class of "free-rider"
          problems where 

        
        people want public services but aren't willing to fund
          them.   Maybe
        we need compulsory public service where youngsters are put
          to work
        in the conventional ways (military, hospitals, etc.) or
          software projects.
        During the Vietnam war I was in grad school in the US and
          shared an
        office with a couple veterans.  One had worked on software
          development 

        
        projects for the Air Force, who I assume were paying for
          grad school.

        
    And the Amish in our area were putting in their 2 years, typically
    working in the local hospitals.

    
    Heinlein had a lot to say about compulsory service for voting
    rights.

    
    But it comes down, a lot, to colleges/Unis to put their students to
    work at least in their Masters program.  A few prof colleagues of
    mine in Sweden and Finland do so.  But there it is actually funded
    by gov education grants.

    
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