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The problem with Microsoft's approach in TFA, is akin to "when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail".
It is actually a lot better to solve the actual root problem, than trying to find and treat symptoms.
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It is good the the World Health organization did not jump the gun.
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Then there is the entire health problem with all the head injuries.
It really makes me wonder why the NFL is so pervasive in our society.
It is not which languages you know, languages are merely the means to express your computer science knowledge.
...One big difference is that OSS sometimes has NO documentation at all. The commercial software I've seen almost always has SOME documentation, and not zero. (Of course that doesn't mean it's good documentation)....
Agreed.
However a big difference between the FOSS and the commercial software in the scenario you cite is that with the FOSS you will not spend money to find out the documentation is lacking.
It is rude (I'm being kind) to charge for software that has no or little documentation.
If I have to proffer my credit card in order acquire the software, the documentation had better well be useful.
...So you do not cite Wikipedia, you cite the article it points to.
Here, let me fix that typo for you...
So you do not cite Wikipedia --- you cite the article it points to, plus the opinion of any hovering mods who remove any citations of alternate (yet accurate) viewpoints.
Wikipedia is not the utopia you envision, it is the product of territorial mods who want "their" articles to read the way "they" want them to read.
...due to the competitive nature of its maintenance...
This so-called "feature" has turned out to be more of a problem than a feature. You have competitive hovering mods removing any content they happen to disagree with, even if that content is accurate.
Sorry, Wikipedia is good, but it is not all its fan-bois crank it up to be.
These days I interpret Linus' "meltdowns" just as some funny nerd rage. He uses that technique to strongly underline the importance of his point, it's never real anger.
It is bullying, plain and simple.
...It's a little ironic that the he's so quick to attack the GCC people.
Especially since the Linux kernel has always been bug-free.
I don't 'like' lima beans, that doesn't mean there is anything wrong with them. In this case your lima beans have been switched out with castor beans and you're dying. Pretty big difference.
It's a compiler bug, for Pete's sake, not the end of the world.
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Revert to a known working version of the compiler, submit a bug report and move on.
Why the temper tantrums? What is with all the drama?
One man's constant is another man's variable. -- A.J. Perlis
