On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 02:01:08PM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote:
> On Mon Jun 17 12:55:25 EDT 2013, ara...@mgk.ro wrote:
> > > a lot of effort has gone into making code public.
> >
> > But it would be zero effort if code wouldn't be secret in the first place.
There is code that is neither secret nor published. Code that does "the"
or "some" job for the writer but that the writer does not want to
maintain (for a public audience). I have the example for kerTeX: I use
RISK, my own framework, that is not a precious proprietary code
with lots of cutting edge and research features, but simply something
that does the job for me and that I didn't want to support for
others. It went publkic by side effect (and the support will be
limited to kerTeX use).
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Thierry Laronde <tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com>
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