On 03/08/2015 07:14 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
Choice. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2008-January/msg00861.html
I'm reminded of the introduction to the first edition of Steve McConnell's "After the Gold Rush. It seems only the 2nd edition is available now. http://www.amazon.ca/After-Gold-Rush-Profession-Engineering/dp/0735608776 http://www.stevemcconnell.com/gr-intro.htm There are places we do need 'professionalism' of the kind he addresses. I want the flight control software of the planes I travel in, the software controls of my car, the banking and financial transaction software that runs our lives, various governmental software to be safe and secure, for various values and interpretations of those two words. Evidence is that they are not, and much of the 'not' has nothing to do with FOSS, any gap between Fedora and Suse, between Redhat and Novell kind of config options about the GUI that we are talking about in this thread. But contrariwise without the freedom and FOSS we wouldn't have Linux, we wouldn't have the (counter-)culture that grew up that gave us the original UNIX[1], BSD, the IMSAI and amateur computer clubs and led to the Apple ][, the PC, <strike>Patterson's</strike> Microsoft's OS for the 16-bit Intel chip, and in due course Linux, Android and OSX. [1] DMR and BillJoy and Stallman count as 'long haired hippie freaks' b various standards of the day. -- A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org