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Matt Turner: |
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> On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 9:56 AM, hasufell <hasufell@g.o> wrote: |
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>> Dean Stephens: |
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>>> On 02/15/15 22:26, hasufell wrote: |
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>>>> Scripts no one can read except the team (even after being asked to |
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>>>> publish them) is by definition propriety software. It was used to |
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>>>> develop and package emul-linux-x86-* packages until this very day. |
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>>> Your prose might benefit from labeling when you are using hyperbole, |
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>>> otherwise when you make factually inaccurate claims it might seem as |
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>>> though you actually believe them. |
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>>> In case that was unclear: while those scripts might not be formally |
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>>> published, they have been made available to people who are not on the |
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>>> team. Unless, that is, you define "the team" as anyone who has seen the |
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>>> scripts; in which case you would be trivially correct by definition. |
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>> Are you saying you only share the code with your buddies? In that case, |
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>> it is against our social contract as well. |
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> Yes, fine, it is. I don't think you're making an interesting point. |
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My point is that the team violated the social contract. |
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>> Not only that, it is even a serious security problem since the developer |
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>> community doesn't know how these things are packaged and neither do the |
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>> users. |
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> There's a serious security problem if they were to release the scripts |
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> (passwords and all) right this second. |
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This statement makes me wonder if you really understand opensource (or |
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even free software). |
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Maybe the recruitment quizzes need to be fixed in this regard. |
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> There's a lack of man power and that's completely sufficient to |
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> explain why these things haven't happened. |
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Definitely not. |