Quotes of the week
Given the readability issues caused by overuse of lambda, there's a
school of thought that sees "I like lambda functions, but don't like
the lambda keyword, so I avoid using lambda expressions in Python" as
a desirable characteristic of the status quo.
— Nick Coghlan
In this happy case the source code for ZFS is available, but what
about the future, when we aren't so lucky and someone asserts in court
that the "you know, the software license was really about the spirit
of sharing and that means we are allowed to use it -- and not be held
to the pesky details as written in the license".
— Tom
Marble is skeptical of the Software Freedom Law Center's analysis
of ZFS.
Volunteers don't generally donate their time to solve problems they
don't have (and employers don't typically donate their employees' time
to solve problems they or their customers don't have), which means "I
don't personally have that problem, so I deny its very existence" is
almost never a compelling line of argument in a community-driven open
source project.
— Nick Coghlan