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By being so religious about the open source aspect only, you are blind to the many potential other benefits a project may have. But to each their own.
by mherrmann 8y ago
By being so religious about the open source aspect only, you are blind to the many potential other benefits a project may have. But to each their own.
- Sir_Cmpwn 8y agoI don't think that's true. I've long worked with software both proprietary and not, and I find myself digging deep all the time. I shouldn't have to reverse engineer my dependencies to find out why they're broken. When I do figure it out, I should be able to send a patch so everyone benefits. Without these basic things in place, I simply cannot get work done. The other advantages are not really important. If an open source offering is lacking something, I can just add it myself. If the proprietary version is lacking something, I cannot.
- mherrmann 8y agoAnd what if what you're doing is just a quick, one month project? Is it likely you must absolutely dig into the sources then? I would say no. The fact is, your original comment completely fails to address or take into account the context of the individual project. You think you're being reasonable, and of course there are great advantages to open source. I too would prefer this library to be. But the dogmatism and fanaticism is not just offensive to the author who claims elsewhere in the thread that he spent 4 years on this, it's also irrational and leads to suboptimal results.
- Sir_Cmpwn 8y ago>And what if what you're doing is just a quick, one month project? Is it likely you must absolutely dig into the sources then? I would say no. You would be surprised. I can't even count on one hand the number of times I've send a patch upstream within the first 2 hours of using a new dependency. I don't really care how long he spent on it. It was a waste of 4 years if it's just going to be proprietary.
- mherrmann 8y ago> It was a waste of 4 years if it's just going to be proprietary. Dogmatism all over again.
- asddgsgsaxg 8y agoSir_Cmpwn, i too find myself sending drive-by patches after trying out a new package. Don't bother with this hateful guy, you rock!
- pknopf 8y agoWanting to debug/maintain libraries you depend on isn't what I would call "religious". > you are blind to the many potential other benefits a project may have What makes you think we aren't paying attention?
- mherrmann 8y agoBecause the comment > This is proprietary, so it's a non-starter. did not go into _any_ of the other details or aspects of the project.