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On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 08:18 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 22:58:20 -0500 Doug Goldstein <cardoe@g.o> |
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> wrote: |
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> | > A far better justification than you've given currently. |
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> | How about hacking on open source is done so that people can scratch |
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> | an itch. No developer has to be a slave to the demands of others if |
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> | it doesn't scratch that developer's itch. |
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> | A baselayout without bash scratches Roy's itch. |
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> Which is all very well, but not sufficient reason to screw up a project |
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> that is developed and used by a lot of people. |
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He's not "screwing up" anything. He's making changes he wishes as the |
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author and maintainer of the package. If someone doesn't like it, they |
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can fork it and maintain their own package. Isn't that just wonderful? |
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Seriously, Roy can work on whatever he wants how he wants, just like any |
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of the rest of us. Anyone who doesn't like it can simply fork the |
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project, or even create a new project to replace the functionality |
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provided by this package. It happens all the time. I seem to remember |
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it happening with this package manager we all are familiar with... |
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