On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 07:02:27PM -0500, Scott M. Dier wrote:
> On Tue, 2001-10-02 at 17:35, steve wrote:
> > Zibby, deep breaths, good air in, bad air out...repeat.  Sit back, do 
> > this four thousand, two hundred and sixteen times.   You will feel 
> 
> It's nice to have the bleeding edge packaged, but many package
> developers are deciding to stay away from bleeding edge because of the
> enabling of 'user who cant debug' to use their packages.  Theres some
> sort of feeling that 'oh, its packaged! it has to be stable, featurful,
> and not break my system or im going to go kill them for doing such a
> horrible thing to me and MY MACHINE'
> 
> this is a true threat to package developers.

Users have long been considered one of the top threats to developers.

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I used to like HP before computers, and once I even liked Compaq,
but I liked DEC better than HP and Compaq put together.