After reading my own blog (shocking, isn’t it?), I realized I was busting too hard on Eric Raymond. Well, maybe not, but the guy stays pretty busy. Who am I to fault him if his software doesn’t work?
After contemplating that, along with my broken and woefully unmaintained bplog blogging scripts, I hit upon something.
“Hey. This is open-source software, dumbass,” I thought. “If it breaks, I get to keep both pieces.”
So I imagined what ESR would say if I told him Bogofilter doesn’t work. He might say “well, fix it your damn self.” Ok, not knowing Eric that well, he might not really say that. But he could.
Thus, I have discovered the perfect open-source motto: “Fix it yo’ damn self.” Don’t like something? Dig in. Go crazy. Nothing stopping you from greatness.
So open source users have nothing holding ’em back. Kinda cool.
“Fix it yo’ damn self.”