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Culture of implementing on crack

Culture of implementing on crack

Posted Dec 12, 2008 15:56 UTC (Fri) by gvy (guest, #11981)
In reply to: Culture of wrappers and workarounds by nhippi
Parent article: Losses at Mandriva

> Then finally one day upstream went and implemented autoconfiguring.
...breaking things for everyone. Yes, from modelines to 96dpi on ati and 120dpi screen.

Theory and practice are closer in theory than in practice. And distros are closer to users than upstreams usually. (implementors and supporters are closer yet, so there's at least one more similar round)


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