[Info-vax] Python and various libraries updated

Scott Dorsey kludge at panix.com
Sat Aug 8 20:58:57 EDT 2020


=?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?=  <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>On 8/8/2020 12:32 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>> =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?=  <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>>> Today most open source users have no intention of ever looking
>>> at the source code.
>> 
>> And this, in short, is everything wrong with the open source community today.
>
>That is the natural consequence of open source changing status from
>"something for hard core developers" to "something everybody uses".

It's more fundamental than that.  Computers have changed from "something that
I use to do something I program them for" to "something that I use to do 
something that someone else programs them for."
--scott
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