On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 7:45 AM, <sta...@cs.tu-berlin.de> wrote: > Putting elitism and relevance in the same line just doesn't make sense > -- consider following: by chance, hundreds thousands of non-expert users > discover the beauty of dwm through some end-user-friendly distro and > overnight it's not only used by experts. Would it be then less relevant > to experts?
No, it then becomes a pain in the ass for experts, because you get hundreds of illiterate assholes storming mailing lists and irc channels with messages that read "HI I AM A LARGE BUTT AND SOME JERK PACKAGED WMII AND MY PHP CONFIGURATION SCRIPT ISN'T WORKING WHERE I CAN I SEND PATCHES TO INCOMPETENTLY FIX THIS NON-ISSUE???" Meanwhile the ostensible maintainer of the software in question has swan-dived off the face of the internet and can't be arsed to apply any patches, even stupid ones. If you're so concerned about dead, rotting code being removed from suckless.org, open a bitbucket account, mirror all the endangered suckless repos on it, and forget about it. -- # Kurt H Maier
