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Re:Main GNU source repository server compromised on Tuesday November 30, 2010 @03:24PM (#1955448)
I thought more eyes on the source means that OSS is impenetrable. Guess not.
Re:OpenOffice.org Council members resign on Tuesday October 26, 2010 @10:15AM (#1834236)
So a bunch of non-important people quit? Big deal.
Yes, they would be motivated to write optimized code rather than a bunch of crap. Their productivity may suffer, unless their tools were also optimized to run on these slower devices.

I normally write (or test) code in a virtual machine on an older system to make sure I force myself to think about impact to performance.