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On 9/29/06, Bob Young <BYoung@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> > -----Original Message----- |
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> > From: richard.j.fish@×××××.com [mailto:richard.j.fish@×××××.com]On |
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> > On 9/29/06, Bob Young <BYoung@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> > > it's true from Duncan's perspective because that's the way it *feels* to |
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> > > him. In the end that's just feel good rationalization and total |
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> > bullshit. |
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> > Ok, so now you are saying that Duncan's opinion is wrong. You don't |
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> > respect Duncan's opinion, but you expect us to respect yours? I call |
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> > hypocrite. |
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> Nice strawman, I've never said, or implied that I didn't respect Duncan's |
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> opinion. In fact just the opposite, I've specifically told him that I |
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> believe he has thought a lot about this, and that I believe he is sincere. |
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Then I apologize. I gathered that "total bullshit" was in reference |
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to Duncan's beliefs. |
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> When was the last time that you personally submitted a *patch* for some open |
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> source app/utility/driver? |
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Not really relevant to this discussion, but: |
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http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.alsa.devel/39777 |
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http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.alsa.devel/40207 |
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> Another example: It would take me a very long time to fix a problem with a |
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> SCSI driver, compared to someone who works on SCSI drivers regularly. Would |
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> *you* want to pay for the many extra hours of troubleshooting due to my |
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> inexperience with <fill in blank> type of code? |
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Well the alsa patches above did take me dozens of hours to figure out. |
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Much of that was figuring out how the alsa driver worked, studying |
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the Intel HDA specification, and fiddling with own hardware. So yes, |
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it can take an amazing amount of time. |
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The point is, anybody _can_ do it, if they are willing to invest the |
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time and effort into it. It is very very much like learning a foreign |
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language. I don't speak German...so I am totally dependant upon a |
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translator if I want to communicate with someone who speaks only |
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German. But should I not be able to find a translator willing to work |
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for what I am willing to pay, I always have the option of learning to |
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speak German myself. |
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> All code is not the same, and software engineers are not all |
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> interchangeable. |
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Heh, try telling that to management at ${mycompany}! ;-P |
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-Richard |
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