Re: Potentially Predatory Pre-Announcement of Possible Vaporware (zinq-djbdns-0.01)

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 09:45:30AM +0900, Bernd Plagge wrote:

> >  (I'm not saying "make clean" is a bad convention. My point is that
> >  people who are interested enough in djbware to package things like
> >  djbdns should pay the time/cost/effort to go a little deeper into
> >  the code and understand how things work and why they are done that
> >  way. Most of the time, going against conventions has been a fully
> >  thought design decision.)
> 
> Basically this means that somebody not willing to dive into the code
> does not 'deserve' 'such a fine software'.  Same as saying: if you
> can't take an engine apart you don't deserve owning a car.

He's talking about people who are _packaging_ the software, not using
it. To continue your analogy, I hope that the people who assembled my
car know how the interface to the engine works.

-Peff