Re: [dev] Open Source DIY ethics

From: Alessandro Pistocchi <apukfreelance_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2018 08:00:48 +0100

Agree :-)

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> On 22 Dec 2018, at 11:26, Jan Bessai <jan.bessai_AT_tu-dortmund.de> wrote:
>
>> On 12/22/18 8:57 AM, Hiltjo Posthuma wrote:
>>> On Sat, Dec 22, 2018 at 01:55:51PM +1300, Martin Tournoij wrote:
>>> [...]
>>> I wrote a brief article about "Open source DIY ethics", which I think
>>> describes the mentality of open source development for many (in the
>>> suckless community it's more explicit, but I think it's hardly contained
>>> to suckless):
>>> [...]
>>
>> [...] I liked the article and the Dutch bicycle example :) [...]
>
> Thanks for the article. I also enjoyed it.
>
> You might add that keeping things small is crucial for the described way
> of operating. Otherwise things are impossible to understand for casual
> contributors. Suckless embodies this as a core value. In your analogy
> you can DIY fix bicycles, but DIY fixing airbags in cars is probably a
> bad idea (unless you are resourceful enough to do crash tests). With
> software, browser engines are a good example: surf currently uses
> Webkit, because writing browser engines is inherently complicated. Just
> as with cars, many things are complicated instead of complex, because of
> complicated standards.
>
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