[Freedombox-discuss] http://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/07/18/0153204/Security-Consultants-Wa rn-About-PROTECT-IP-Act
- Subject: [Freedombox-discuss] http://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/07/18/0153204/Security-Consultants-Wa rn-About-PROTECT-IP-Act
- From: luke.leighton@gmail.com (Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton)
- Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 19:26:25 +0100
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On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 6:28 PM, J David Eisenberg
<jdavid.eisenberg at gmail.com> wrote:
> From my reading of this list, people also want to find existing
> packages which will fill the requirements with no changes or only
> minimal changes, given that it is often easier to modify a program
> than to write a new one from scratch.
yes. i'm aware of that. it's why, whenever i encounter someone
who's written a piece of software that i believe does between 1% and
100% of the job, i'm making this list aware of that software's
existence. there's often complete silence and zero reaction - for
which there could be several reasons.
one of them is quite likely to be that the requirements are just...
hellishly complex. you can tell that from the list:
http://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/UserRequirements/BrainStorm
so, even if someone says "software package X will help get you N%
towards fulfilling requirement M", what i _don't_ understand is not
even a "thank you" or a "great - put it on the wiki, here's a link
where the stuff you've sent best fits". ok, i can understand the lack
of the words "thank you" or "great" - they're not essential.
l.
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