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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!news-out.netnews.com!postmaster.netnews.com!us11.netnews.com!not-for-mail X-Trace: DXC=LjHSXXHbL2VSN]UZ>R37=RHWonT5<]0T]djI?Uho:Xe[lL51CP6LDL\Z1\1M:\WK>_EQFN0dM5>:Va5BMWM7b1lIBJR\[C_8IYL43U X-Complaints-To: support@blocknews.net From: Andrzej Matuch Subject: Re: cpu-x Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy References: <66399f10$0$6551$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <663fba6f$1$6436$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <66400e83$0$7173$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <66420423$0$6444$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <6642ac1f$0$3711206$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> User-Agent: Pan/0.146 (Hic habitat felicitas; d7a48b4 gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pan.git) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: 14 May 2024 13:05:14 GMT Lines: 27 Message-ID: <6643618a$0$2363147$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 127.0.0.1 X-Trace: 1715691914 reader.netnews.com 2363147 127.0.0.1:51303 Bytes: 2528 On Tue, 14 May 2024 08:30:08 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote: > Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote this copyrighted missive and expects > royalties: > >> On 14 May 2024 00:11:11 GMT, Andrzej Matuch wrote: >> >>> So, it would be beneficial to open-source developers to make sure that >>> their software breaks easily and crashes, so as to sell the support. > > Uh, projects with a reputation for breakage will stop being used at all. > >> Clearly you have never used the stuff. >> >> No, actually, you are depending crucially on it right now, without >> realizing it. Without Open Source, there would be no Internet. > > One thing people don't seem to understand is that most programmers, > especially "open-source" programmers, have pride! They don't want to be > ridiculed for writing garbage. They want to please their uses and > respond quickly to issue reports. Many of them are even OCD about their > code. Only until they realize that they've made no money from it whatsoever. Whether you want to admit it or not, those programmers who were most insistent about supporting open-source eventually move on to greener pastures, and produce quality code in proprietary form.