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On Tue, 23 Sep 2014 03:04:10 +1000 |
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Lie Ryan <lie.1296@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> If you are not contributing to the solutions I use then don't be |
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> surprised if my software goes to directions that do not accomodate |
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> your own in-house stuffs. There are thousands of people with their own |
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> in-house stuffs that breaks due to the changes, and thousands other |
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> in-house that becomes easier due to the changes, why should I care |
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> about yours in particular. If you want me to care about your stuffs, |
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> then put it in the open, make it useful for more than just you, and |
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> fight it out with other similar solutions. |
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Rigidity of design serves only to accommodate the ignorant dummy. |
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A professional system is deliberately set up to allow infinite |
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configuration and customization by an informed user base. |
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In the Linux world there are distributions made for the dummy |
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and there are distributions intended for informed users. The |
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diversity made possible by the inherent and extensive configurability |
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of Linux allows this. |
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All developers should never lose sight of the need to keep the |
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overall design open and flexible. |
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Someone else mentioned the concept of "vertical integration." |
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It is important to always understand this concept and how it can |
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lead to a loss of flexibility and consequently a loss for the |
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Linux community as a whole. |
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