Re: OpenSSL development (Heartbleed)

["Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>]

Le Sat, 19 Apr 2014 18:34:13 +0200, Georg Bauhaus  
<rm-host.bauhaus@maps.futureapps.de> a écrit:

>> That's a well established fact in the software area, so the assumption  
>> is honest enough.
>
> That Funding = Quality_Assurance is a repeatedly established
> belief in talking about the "software area", so the only thing
> one can honestly assume is that people are going to repeat it.

Not a belief, a practical fact. It happens I discovered bugs in some misc  
open‑source software, but either did not solved/investigated it, because I  
have enough things to solve in my own life. If helping others in solving  
this would have make them help/support me in return, this would have been  
different. Another variant is when it happened I discovered bugs,  
investigated these, proposed a fix, and the fix was rejected for  
mysterious reasons and I did not insist because I did not have time to  
fight for this, for similar reasons as above.

That's just real life. There is a well known philosophy in the Ada world,  
which cleverly says “programming is a human activity” with a strong  
emphasis on “human” and it's characteristics, which means, it's not  
something outside of human contingencies.


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“Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.” [1]
“Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.” [1]
[1]: Epigrams on Programming — Alan J. — P. Yale University