From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Qa8h8-00041a-Dw for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 24 Jun 2011 15:53:22 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6A6541C043; Fri, 24 Jun 2011 15:49:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pw0-f53.google.com (mail-pw0-f53.google.com [209.85.160.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1056A1C043 for ; Fri, 24 Jun 2011 15:49:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pwi16 with SMTP id 16so2160884pwi.40 for ; Fri, 24 Jun 2011 08:49:56 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=/kucY+PkOwzhG1nFyIWEJ9uzM6RS2hbWBB4mGKfmvus=; b=R6FnDuzUjyrAQpI/AfHF0ox+LiPRYb2J9C5fYs5JFbbjIZRoFCvg5vjA38IoszF3t2 CjdZsUozglnxO7fp3Yq9j2DsWmrTfAHXi+LZy60yLkLF8iVLEKCgWiTsAaleC2CBi1p6 F6EJfclouFNjawYCqBIzlfiFXN1ZDbdeP8ryc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=gKOZHIcQFpJLBYDPU5aMO74Y7rIiU76xntQP8ON/D+44CLpjBXvxDjZS/ZAscnpUxR LuIUpEJDYXFYwGLVmwpJ1NKWjY8Ckvk2nFAsr6tyFFmyu8W8mNaU9LWbQb0SF9WX7epo hdpac0KrNlbZFjG4LnQkh83vCK3c6ehlJvkoU= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.142.216.16 with SMTP id o16mr707886wfg.368.1308930596857; Fri, 24 Jun 2011 08:49:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.142.133.12 with HTTP; Fri, 24 Jun 2011 08:49:56 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 18:49:56 +0300 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT/rant] Self-replicating programmer stupidity From: "Arttu V." To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: c71faab796cd00808827c694bddfb056 On 6/24/11, walt wrote: > My question: WTF uses these poorly written ftp servers? Why do they > exist? Who asked for them? Who wrote the code, and why? Maybe they're all derivatives of a single codebase with lots of bugs and a MIT/BSD/Apache-style license? -- Arttu V.