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Robert Walter posted <200605042309.02492.ro-wa@×××.at>, excerpted below, |
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on Thu, 04 May 2006 23:09:02 +0200: |
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> not even 24h from the bug report to the fixed ebuild. that's magic! |
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> unbelievable. i used to run windows many moons ago. what was i thinking? |
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Gentoo can be very impressive, sometimes! =8^) |
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You are right. How big a customer would you have to be to get that sort |
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of attention from most proprietaryware companies? Even then, the fix |
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would likely take several days, minimum, because they'd have to vet and |
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test it, as they /couldn't/ make it simple and reveal the source code, and |
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whatever compiler or whatever they used to obscure the source could well |
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introduce bugs of its own, where none existed otherwise! |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in |
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http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html |
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