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Excuse me, but I tried to direct you back to the original premise. Now it's an absurd claim? Did you read the article? It's not even my claim. And yes, if you read http://twitter.com/zedshaw you will see that the bug I posted is one that Zed references.
By the way, your "post" is quite the "epitome" of total "air quotery".
I believe, yes, Zed Shaw is trying to make a big claim. Reread the original post and you will see that he does in fact accuse them of liking to patch everything because they like control and lockin.
Will you do me a favor and file this bug report for me? I'm allergic to sanctimony which I'm sure is all you'll receive from the package maintainer:
"gem update --system is disabled on Debian. RubyGems can be updated using the official Debian repositories by aptitude or apt-get."
Tell your next potential client about your crack staff.
1. Get them to sign a contract.
2. Put ads for 3 developers on craigslist. Send the developers over.
3. You go check on them every day at 10:30 am.
4. At about 11:30 am walk down to the client's office, chat for 10 minutes and then ask "have you had lunch yet?"
5. Take client to lunch everyday. They pay you to take them out to lunch. Just pad the fee enough.
last line made my day
They forgot Glasgow. I'll add it here: o
;)
I'm sure your plan sounds better in the original German. Something must have been lost in the translation.