The luxury of ignorance: A follow-up (NewsForge) [LWN.net]

The luxury of ignorance: A follow-up (NewsForge)

Posted Mar 2, 2004 23:57 UTC (Tue) by bojan (subscriber, #14302)
In reply to: The luxury of ignorance: A follow-up (NewsForge) by hereticmessiah
Parent article: The luxury of ignorance: A follow-up (NewsForge)

> The first thing is to realise the problem exists.

Yes, of course. But ESR was far from first to see this one. People that are developing GNOME, for instance, have written papers on the issue and keep discussing it publicly, and more imporatantly, are writing software the follows guidelines that were result of those discussions. So, ESR is simply reinventing the wheel here.

What he should have done is write patches that fix the problems he was experiencing and then write a piece that would celebrate open source development model. But he's telling us: "Do as I say, not as I do." I kind of remember him asking a lot of other people to "show us the code". Where's the code now?

His piece is just a rant. And at that, a rant directed at a completely wrong group of people, simply because he was too lazy/angry/misinformed to find out where the problem actually was. Simply put, nobody will be better off for his rant. The code will not be written faster and no unknown issue has been discovered. He just wanted a bit more attention.

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