Unruh wrote: > David Woolley <da...@ex.djwhome.demon.co.uk.invalid> writes: > >> Joseph Gwinn wrote: >>> We have moved from the meaning of status code 9514 to the more general > >> But you should have kept the thread, even if the subject changed. > >>> issue of how NTP shall be supported, so I've collected the relevant >>> threads below. > >>> More generally, it's hopeless to expect the world's sysadmins to read >>> NTP code (or any other kind of code). They just don't have the time, > >> Generally, you only need to read a small bit of code to answer this sort >> of question, but if you haven't got the time you should pay someone who >> does have the time. > >> Historically, open source software was written for use by people who had >> the ability to support it themselves. Recently, the relationship has >> become asymmetric with a lot of people wanting free software and free >> support. Whilst some open source software developers may consider it a >> valuable loss leader to produce a naive user product and support it, may >> even consider it part of their mission, most open source developers are >> not that interested in donating that level of free support. > > ???? I do not believe that say Linus every believed that he wrote the > kernel only for people who would support it themselves. It was a tool > written for many by a few. Ie, it was always assymetric. I suspect also > that Linus would have immense difficulty supporting everything in the > kernel, or even knowing what is there, himself. And it is precisely when > you know others will be both working on and using the software you write > that it becomes crucial that good coding practice be instituted. That means > a) writing the code so that anyone ( including you three months from now) > can relatively easily figure out what is going on and > b) writing up documentation so that anyone ( including you three months > from now) knows what the output means. > And there are lots of people who do it that way. <snip> Those who can and do work this way command top dollar! There are never enough of them!!
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