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|    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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