From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2004-08-16T03:35:47+09:00
Subject: Re: RubyForge project and gem distriubtion

Francis Hwang wrote:
> David Ross <drossruby@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<20040813043743.2642.qmail@web21526.mail.yahoo.com>...
> 
>>People who download shouldn't have to be cautious as
>>to look at the code. It should be up to someone else.
> 
> 
> A remarkable statement, that. Life would be a lot easier if all sorts
> of things were up to somebody else, but that's not how life works.
> 
> Why can't programmers be responsible for the stuff they download?
> Nobody's holding a gun to your head forcing you to install a library
> as root.

Thank you, Francis. A quite sensible reply.

Hal