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Re:It’s OK for your open source library to be a bit shitty (... by random32840 on Sunday May 17, 2020 @04:17AM (#23210536)
This is naive. If it's a bad library full of bugs, it's going to be garbage code. I'm not going to spend inordinate amounts of time & effort wrestling with shitty code to earn the right to say the library is bad. IMO that's not a good standard.
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Re:It’s OK for your open source library to be a bit shitty (... by pfdietz on Sunday May 17, 2020 @08:16AM (#23211435)
I wasn't saying you couldn't call it bad. But I will say demanding it not be bad would be stepping over a line.

If money ever changes hands with the author of that code, that's a different story. But if it's something free you just found, and you have never paid the author anything, then at most you can warn others to not waste their time. You are in no moral or legal position to demand anything.

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Re:It’s OK for your open source library to be a bit shitty (... by random32840 on Monday May 18, 2020 @04:41AM (#23219927)
You're right, I misread. I apologise.
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