Messages in this thread |  | | From | "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" <> | Subject | Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: [BK PATCH] USB changes for 2.5.34 | Date | Mon, 16 Sep 2002 11:05:13 +0000 (UTC) |
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Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com> writes:
>the code, go for it. However, my experience is that what he was saying >resonates with "I'm going in to fix this problem so I can get back to >work on my real project". And that is almost always wrong. If the >problem was that bloody simple don't you think the original author of >the code would have fixed it already? It's almost never as simple as a
BS. In 99% of the cases you fix the problem because the original author has abandoned the code or does no longer care about it.
Ask me about it. Once upon a time, I just wanted to use a Web Framework [1] for a project. Now I'm one of the main developers of it. Not because I wanted to be but out of pure necessity.
Regards Henning
[1] Jakarta Turbine. http://jakarta.apache.org/turbine/
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