Code, not words [LWN.net]

Code, not words

Posted Nov 28, 2005 7:22 UTC (Mon) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091)
In reply to: No Shock... action. by mmarq
Parent article: Microsoft, the "Vienna Conclusions," and the UN World Summit (Heise Online)

From a democratic point of view Microsot has the majority to rule

Not true; this is not The Lord of the Rings. Microsoft has nothing to rule, but they have a big pile of money.

Or is the community at sleep ?

Nope, the community is working together, coding and solving bugs.

*What are going to be the prioritys of future development*

Priorities are set by those who do the coding. In some companies, priorities are set by those who pay for development. Nothing earth-shattering most of the time, but at least they do something (other than talk).

Trowing stones wont do any good, but if nothing *DIFFERENT FROM USUAL* is done the OSS will find itself outcasted

Nonsense. If you are so worried and want to implement a better driver model, a higher level XML layer, anything that has the word "advanced" on it, or whatever; just learn how to program and do it. Otherwise you are just wasting our time.

10000 developers cant do anything if they are locked away or neglect the grand masses of users.

Yeah, right. Show us the code.

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Code, not words

Posted Nov 28, 2005 7:36 UTC (Mon) by deepfire (guest, #26138) [Link]

In other words you tell him: "Shut up and code, slave!"

If there was anything else in your post, i missed it, sorry.

Code, not words

Posted Nov 28, 2005 16:03 UTC (Mon) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link]

In other words you tell him: "Shut up and code, slave!"

My message is rather the old "code talks louder than words". mmarq has a convoluted logic which is hard to follow and which sounds like telling other people to accept his priorities, based on a flaky logic (and never well substantiated IMHO). Just warning about the impending doom once and again is not enough; I think that his message would benefit if he spent some effort actually doing something about it.

If there was anything else in your post, i missed it, sorry.

That is the advantage of the written word: you can go over it as many times as you want, until you get it.

Code, not words

Posted Nov 28, 2005 23:15 UTC (Mon) by mmarq (guest, #2332) [Link]

" mmarq has a convoluted logic which is hard to follow and which sounds like telling other people to accept his priorities, based on a flaky logic (and never well substantiated IMHO). "

How is hard to understand scepticals and confined brains... i want to see code... i only can see code... i dont understand nothing but code... (why, where, purpouse, reason, and *FUTILITY*, are out of question!)

So, as speaking of logic here is something that also applyies to you :

"That is the advantage of the written word: you can go over it as many times as you want, until you get it."

Go get it "code tiger"!