On Friday 18 November 2005 22:10, Collins Richey wrote:
> You have every right to blame someone!!! IMHO, the absolute worst
> feature of FOSS is the love developers have for changing a very round
> wheel that rolls quite well to something prettier from a design
> standpoint but less effective and that breaks everything in sight. No
> one from the kernel to glibc to lowly useful tools like wget is exempt
> from this mania.
This is why there was at one time three separate versions of OpenSSL in the
distribution. That is indeed one of the downsides to open source, since the
software is subject to the whims and fancies of its developers. And the
right hand knoweth not what the left had doeth.
--
Lamar Owen
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Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute
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Rosman, NC 28772
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