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I think the big problem with all the copy paste code is that you wind up with many redundant dependencies and equivalent pieces of software in varying qualities

I think the big problem with all the copy paste code is that you wind up with many redundant dependencies and equivalent pieces of software in varying qualities. Granted that it's open source, you can't rely on any kind of competitive (ie market-driven) mechanism to improve all of these redundant pieces of software over time. This is an inefficient part of how things are done....but that's not to say there's an obvious, more-efficient alternative to what we're doing now.

blinkingled 14y ago
Absolutely - it is a problem in that it is inefficient and error prone. And @DanBC - yes, no doubt people shouldn't be writing their own crypto (but to be fair copy/paste is not akin to making their own crypto - it's just a wrong way to reuse.) But my point was that this isn't a "it doesn't work" type problem, this is a "it can get better" type of a problem - and I've seen many instances where these types of problems are discussed on the mailing lists of several projects and people with an itch to fix it go ahead and do it. It just highlights the differences in perspectives - get it to work first and even if we had to hack it we can make the design better later on if there are enough people bothered by it.