On Sun, 12 May 2013 18:55:05 -0500, J. Leslie Turriff wrote:

>       Sorry; I should have marked that Off-Topic.
>       This is an interesting exposition on the subject.  I suppose that this 
> is
>unavoidable in any business that produces large software systems.
>
> http://blog.zorinaq.com/?e=74
> 
I have a question on a technique.  How does publishing a SHA-1
checksum of a system file authenticate the author as having
access to the source code?  But he probably knows what he's
doing, and I'm relatively naive:

    http://xkcd.com/1181/

... looks fine to me.

-- gil

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