On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 10:38:17AM -0700, ron minnich wrote:
>
> I'm amused about dvips executing commands. People have given Adobe a
> lot of trouble about the embedded javascript in PDF files, and now we
> see that somewhere along the line the open source community did
> something even worse. When did system() creep into dvips, I wonder? I
> can't imagine the original authors making such a terrible mistake.
Hum... I retrieved the latest public domain version, and the file is
tagged 1990...
What may be a surprise---but not for me: I have the same experience with
GRASS---is that the advertised "community", "hundred of developers"
(even a Debian packager is called a "developer"), given 10 or 20
years, have cleaned nothing, improved nothing, but added "things"...
I have now the "Laronde's principle": intelligence is an intensive
value, not an extensive one: it doesn't sum up.
The only way to have a group of human beings acting with the maximal
intelligence is to have a group hierarchically organized with the
maximal intelligence---for the task--- at the head.
An inorganized group of human has not, as an intelligence,
the sum of the IQ, but has an IQ that is strictly less than the IQ of
the dumber of the group---because hidden in the "community", without
responsability and protected by anonymity, individuals can dare things
that they will never do if they can be identified.
--
Thierry Laronde <tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com>
http://www.kergis.com/
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