Sam Said:
>No, the question is very specific: if Red Hat botched the sendmail RPM,
>how does that sole event somehow translate into Eric Allman's reputation
>being affected in any way?
>The answer, of course, is that it doesn't. This line of argument is
>silly.
No it's not. If i'm evaluating a system and program A really sucks, or is
a burden to administer, the common response would be "Man, that program
sucks" and I would remember that experience for a time. The Author of the
program may not be personally affected, but the relationship of
"sendmail"->Allman or "qmail"->DJB has been made and I would be much more
cautious of the next Allman or DJB package that was available.
I think that saying a personal reputation would be injured is a bit far,
but a professional one would be.
Paul D. Farber II
Farber Technology
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