Posts by Rapier

Rust for Linux maintainer steps down in frustration with 'nontechnical nonsense'

Your just an offensive little man, aren't you?

Re: Other problems

That's an interesting perspective. It's also about 20 years out of date.

Re: Other problems

Except that's literally the opposite of what was proposed and agreed upon. The burden of maintaining coherency is on the rust developers.

This all sounds like a not invented here problem.

Re: Other problems

This is the kind of attitude that drives people away from important open source projects. Willful misinterpretation, character assassination, and pointless FUD isn't a winning strategy my friend.

Open sourcerers say suspected xz-style attacks continue to target maintainers

Re: Dependency

Hell no. First off, you would be creating a system where open source work is stifled. Without the imprimatur of one of these groups no one will even look at alternatives. This creates lock-in and single points of failure. Second, these groups lack the resources to adopt the vast array of necessary open source projects. Meaning that they'd still rely on original maintainers and volunteers to do all the work.

OSS devs need to adopt better supply chain security measures but they also need support from their users. By support I mean money. Corporations, businesses, and people that are dependent on OSS dev efforts should be willing to materially contribute to those efforts.

Duke Uni libraries decamp from 37Signals' Basecamp over CTO's blogs

If I buy something I generally don't care about the people who made it because I don't really know what they think or what they stand for. However, if some CEO says something stupid, not only in public but in front of journalists, then I'm going to question if I want to give that person money. That's just how freedom works.

Re: Typical

What an entirely useless comment.

Check out Codon: A Python compiler if you have a need for C/C++ speed

Re: Downloaded Codon from Github.....and then......

Honestly, that doesn't sound like a lot of dependencies to me. But I'm a C developer so dependencies, make files, configure, automake, etc are just part of the process.

Who writes Linux and open source software?

I write open source software

That's pretty much all I do. Everything I release had the most open license possible because it should be available to everyone - not just the people who think like I do. See, I work for a university and I'm funded also entirely by NSF grants. That's taxpayer money so, in my view, it should be available to all taxpayers without restriction.

As for commercial companies like MS contributing OSS, I'm all for that. Why wouldn't I be? They came around to *my* way of thinking. I can review their code for stupidity and, if found, have them correct it. That's why I have no problem with MS contributing to the kernel. Things that would break the underlying concepts of what Linux is supposed to be would be rejected out of hand. There are a whole lot of eyes looking at it after all. In all seriousness, ink more concerned about Google because I have literally been in the room when they pushed back against useful changes to the stack because it could possible cause problems with their usage patterns. I'm taking specifically about the work I did to get RFC 4898 incorporated into the TCP stack. Microsoft was way more open to it and actually implemented it since Vista. Google decided against it because in their infrastructure it might cause one additional cache miss. So Google killed it dead and damaged what could have been years of functional and useful TCP analysis and tools.

Re: gitHUB

So that's entirely not true. I mean, it reads well, but it's literally not true in anyway. Are there some OSS developers that don't use GitHub? Sure. Sure that badge them the only true and real OSS developers? Hell no.