On Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 10:06 AM, Philip Hands phil@hands.com wrote:
Are you aware of confirmation bias?
you're talking to a reverse-engineer, so you know that i am.
the problem is that there are so many different "signs" from so many different directions that it becomes completely overwhelming to enumerate them all, track them all down, and describe them all.
but, worse than that, if i *was* to enumerate them all there would be not a single person on the planet willing to read everything that i wrote.
more than that, it would take such a long time that i would run out of patience well before i completed any such "report".
this is a *systemic* problem, phil. the actual source code - and the flaws *in* that source code - are merely symptoms of an underlying "illness" within the software libre community that has absolutely nothing to do with technical mastery.
remember, you're talking to someone who notices far more than they can actually describe in words, who takes in sparse and disparate information from a huge array of sources (and draws correct conclusions that other people simply cannot achieve... or, unfortunately, accept). we can get hung up on the details if you like, but that will not help (at all).
l.