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So, who can think that is God to tell what is good or bad? No one! Just no one!

This is pathetic. Sorry. There are objective measures to software quality. I plea for "The internet is free" If you want to upload your (please denote here "your" as purely syntactic) sw-crap, you can push it on your website.

You should not be able to piss in the church.

Darwin(g)... diversity...

The main thing, that Darwin pointed out, was "survival of the fittest". You cannot as of now compare CPAN to a true ecosystem, because this cleaning of the dead corpses is what's missing on CPAN. It starts to stink because of the many corpses lying out there, fouling, with no worms, bacteriae, janitors cleaning them up.

And that's not about ONE to decide, but MANY. And be it only the set of contributors to CPAN. Democracy.

And don't forget, if you don't like a module that you "buy" from CPAN, ask for your money back!

A well known but wrong argument. It is not about money, it is not about modules being free, it is about the sum of wrong modules polluting the space where also good reside. And if I am allowed to be for a second undiplomatically honest: This argument is the biggest bullshit, and I've heard it in the OSS sector so many times! If an author starts to excuse the poor quality of his software with the fact that it is free - well - then IMHO he is doing SW *just* for his own fun and that's ok, as long as he doesn't bother anyone else with it.

Thats my manifesto.

Bye
PetaMem All Perl: MT, NLP, NLU

In reply to Re: Re: The quantity vs. quality lesson [my MANIFESTO] by PetaMem
in thread The quantity vs. quality lesson by PetaMem

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