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   Message 107,743 of 107,822   
   Paul to John Hasler   
   Re: Advice for newbie   
   11 Feb 26 02:19:33   
   
   From: nospam@needed.invalid   
      
   On Tue, 2/10/2026 7:03 PM, John Hasler wrote:   
   > Carlos writes:   
   >> Because I don't have the skill set required.   
   > Pay someone who does.  SUSE did.   
   >   
   > Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   >> Remember the software only existed because somebody cared enough to   
   >> create it in the first place.   
   >> The code doesn’t write itself, you know.   
   >   
   > Carlos writes:   
   >> No, in this case it was a company that created and maintained it, for   
   >> business purposes, for decades.   
   >   
   > I.e., they cared enough to create it and maintain it. A company is a   
   > group of people.   
   >   
      
   This doesn't smell like a small project.   
      
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YaST   
      
   If you threw Carlos in that vat, you'd just   
   see a stream of bubbles as he sank in it :-)   
      
   It's most likely that the code would be   
   foreign enough, you would not even know   
   what a "correct response" was, while working   
   on the code.   
      
      https://yastgithubio.readthedocs.io/en/latest/architecture/   
      
        Paul   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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