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Re:The sorry state of OpenSSL usability (2017) by guitarbill on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @12:24PM (#20042149)
that's kind of annoying. at the same time, this also underscores the issue of usability. why not alias "--help" to "help"?

yes, i know even critical open source projects are extremely underfunded. perversely, the lack of funding meant that there weren't enough people to review code, which meant contributing was difficult - at least according to this article from 2014 shortly after heartbleed: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/04/tech-...

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Re:The sorry state of OpenSSL usability (2017) by JdeBP on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @02:08PM (#20043428)
Note that part of the problem is the erroneous assumption that "--help" is ubiquitous. It isn't, in practice. It's a GNUism that one does not find very often in the BSD world.
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Re:The sorry state of OpenSSL usability (2017) by guitarbill on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @10:12PM (#20047749)
fair enough, but still: how much effort would it be to support both?
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