On 29 Apr 2015 as I do recall,
Daniel Silverstone wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 10:52:19 +0100, Harriet Bazley wrote:
> > > surely you can work together to either produce a patch, or to persuade
> > > someone who might already know how to code in C to produce a patch.
> >
> > I'm not sure it's very realistic to expect a random C coder out of the
> > kindness of his heart to download the source to a program of the complexity
> > of a web browser, work out how one specific piece of it currently functions,
> > and alter that part without breaking anything else... but I suppose that's
> > how open source software is intended to work...
>
> Oddly enough that's exactly how it's intended to work -- it's certainly how
> pretty much every contributor to NetSurf got started.
>
> You don't think we all sat around one day and said "Hey, let's write a web
> browser" do you?
>
> To turn your argument back around --
>
I think you may be misunderstanding me.
I'm no C coder, and I quail from the thought of obliging someone else to
familiarise himself with a completely new project for my benefit.
--
Harriet Bazley == Loyaulte me lie ==
Please all, and you will please none.
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