Re: plagiarism of reiserfs by Debian
* David Nusinow (david.nusinow@verizon.net) [030422 08:05]:
> So, ultimately, what harm does this do to the author? If all he cares
> about is his reputation, then he's certaintly not doing a good job of
> bolstering it in this particular forum. He's not representing his
> sponsors very well either.
Can't you understand that as an author you would like that messages
like this are not removed without your consent? The internet
robustness principle says: Be liberal in what you accept and
conservative in what you send. Modifiying code is sending, and
therefore the debian-maintainers should be conservative in making
changes against the will of the upstream maintainers. (Formally
everytihn is different. But the world doesn't work with only viewing
the formal points.)
Andi
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