I guess you need to have a story about the Bush administration doing stuff like this before the modders all flock and give 5 insightful ratings to posts like:
Actually, open source software has all KINDS of standards imposed on the code.
Take a look at many the glibc maintainer's responses to patches in the glibc patches archive....part of this guy's fun in coding is ripping other people's patches to shreds (I say that half seriously, as the criticism he gives makes the code more 'standardized'). This peer-review is the enforcement of standards, and people who are reviewers are chosen by how well they write code. (Kind of like/. moderators?)
Did you know that in the GNU community, that there are a requisite number of spaces between the closing punctuation of a comment and the closing comment symbol ("*/")? That's an example of OSS being a community that institutes its own standards. These self imposed standards are what help them to improve the codebase, as it accepts quality code and helps to improve low quality stuff by working with submitters to raise their quality.
Further, ISO/ANSI and POSIX all create standards to which much OS code is supposed to comply (or claims that it does). Now, THAT is where you'll catch the flame wars on the lists, between glibc and gcc folks on the latest round of "your compiler is too strict" versus "your code is too loose" when GCC starts enforcing C99 standards that the libraries hadn't met yet!
was very excited about the OGG vorbis capability but was put off by the problem with the HDD that caused the head to stick to the platter (slam it to fix it problem)
in the end, I decided that a Slimp3 Squeezebox was the way to go in terms of streaming music to my receiver/home stereo system.....especially because the Karma has no remote
when I really want portability, I'll go with a solid state player that plays OGG files or with ptunes on a PDA
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I guess you need to have a story about the Bush administration doing stuff like this before the modders all flock and give 5 insightful ratings to posts like:
"yeah screw them man!"
Actually, open source software has all KINDS of standards imposed on the code.
/. moderators?)
Take a look at many the glibc maintainer's responses to patches in the glibc patches archive....part of this guy's fun in coding is ripping other people's patches to shreds (I say that half seriously, as the criticism he gives makes the code more 'standardized'). This peer-review is the enforcement of standards, and people who are reviewers are chosen by how well they write code. (Kind of like
Did you know that in the GNU community, that there are a requisite number of spaces between the closing punctuation of a comment and the closing comment symbol ("*/")? That's an example of OSS being a community that institutes its own standards. These self imposed standards are what help them to improve the codebase, as it accepts quality code and helps to improve low quality stuff by working with submitters to raise their quality.
Further, ISO/ANSI and POSIX all create standards to which much OS code is supposed to comply (or claims that it does). Now, THAT is where you'll catch the flame wars on the lists, between glibc and gcc folks on the latest round of "your compiler is too strict" versus "your code is too loose" when GCC starts enforcing C99 standards that the libraries hadn't met yet!
was very excited about the OGG vorbis capability but was put off by the problem with the HDD that caused the head to stick to the platter (slam it to fix it problem)
in the end, I decided that a Slimp3 Squeezebox was the way to go in terms of streaming music to my receiver/home stereo system.....especially because the Karma has no remote
when I really want portability, I'll go with a solid state player that plays OGG files or with ptunes on a PDA