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[ILUG] It's illegal, according to the barrister in PC World

[ILUG] It's illegal, according to the barrister in PC World

Dave Airlie airlied at csn.ul.ie
Fri May 3 23:59:06 IST 2002


>
> At the risk of beating my point to death, and then dancing a jig on its
> grave:  An unmaintainable codebase remains unmaintainable after
> open-sourcing.
>

unmaintainable but not unfixable ... if you have the source, you mighn't
want to add new features, but you should be able to fix issues in the
current ones..

Dave.

-- 
David Airlie, Software Engineer
http://www.skynet.ie/~airlied / airlied at skynet.ie
pam_smb / Linux DecStation / Linux VAX / ILUG person






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