>> 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.
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