C3ntaur's Journal: Changed my sig again

I came across a real gem while reading ESR's Cathedral and Bazaar last night. Here's the whole paragraph:

One thing many people think the traditional mode buys you is somebody to hold legally liable and potentially recover compensation from if the project goes wrong. But this is an illusion; most software licenses are written to disclaim even warranty of merchantability, let alone performance--and cases of successful recovery for software nonperformance are vanishingly rare. Even if they were common, feeling comforted by having somebody to sue would be missing the point. You didn't want to be in a lawsuit; you wanted working software.

In order to get it to fit into the sig field I had to paraphrase -- "Having somebody to sue is missing the point. You don't want a lawsuit; you want working software. -- ESR (paraphrased)" -- but I think it still hits the nail on the head.

I still believe the mod/karma system is broken, but the grim truth is that it probably won't change. Meanwhile, I think I'd rather evangelize the open source movement than grouse about something I have no control over.