Re: [fontforge-users] Announcing LibSpiro - version libspiro_beta.0.3.20150131

Hi Alex,

On 09/02/15 18:29, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 7:59 PM, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote:
> 
>>> Up to you of course but a monoculture is at risk for complete and utter
>>> meltdown when the slightest misadventure strikes. A Sun box would be the
>>> cheapest avenue for an independent test .... if I were a sculptor I'd
>>> want to be able to work in wood, stone and metal but to each his own.
>>
>> Compiling on a BSD and/or with clang may already go some way toward lessening
>> the risk of monoculture and may be easier/more convenient to set up than a
>> Solaris box.
> 
> Deary, deary me. Hackers talking about monoculture and suggesting to
> buy hardware that will never be used for anything remotely useful,
> rather then writing and sending a patch. We are all doomed now, aren't
> we, when the brains of the world make a fuzz instead of bloody well
> fixing things? :)

If you think I'm advocating buying hardware, you completely missed my point.

Regards,
-- 
Matijs

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