Open Source Humor
Despite the well-established notions that the supporters of Open Source are the dismal Krasnoglaziki, once again convinced of the adequacy and positive attitude of the leaders of this movement. A brief background is as follows:
The result was not long in coming:
From: Dmitry Shurupov <..>
To: Micah Cowan <..>
Subject: Request for helping in making little prank
Date: 1/15/2010 15:08
')
Hello, Micah!
Some days ago, I’ve seen GNU Wget. Also, it’s written to maintain a new FLOSS project.
TrueOffice that specializes in Open Source integration. And we have a strange funny request for you. Our crawler on C ++. It is now being realized in "wget ​​-r" for years.
Tomorrow (this Saturday), our CEO celebrates his birthday. Prank on it with your help. What is it? GNU Wget maintainer (instead of developing its own C ++ Web crawler)? We would appreciate a lot of your help in this fun.
His email is as follows: Dmitry Stolyarov <..>.
Hope, you need to help us with this prank. Thanks in advance.
From Soviet Russia with love :-)
-
Dmitry Shurupov
Chief Technology Officer,
Trueoffice
www.trueoffice.ru
From: Micah Cowan <..>
To: Dmitry Stolyarov <..>
Subject: GNU Wget Maintainer
Date: 1/16/2010 10:49
Hello Mr Stolyarov,
My name is Micah Cowan. Until recently, I was the maintainer of the
widely used command-line web utility, GNU Wget
(http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/). Last weekend, I announced that I
am stepping down from that role (you can see the announcement here:
lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-wget/2010-01/msg00009.html ).
This is a GNU Wget project.
maintainer. I am very interested in learn
working on a tool in C ++, the connectivity is exactly equivalent to
that of GNU Wget. To my mind,
step in as Wget's new maintainer.
Since you’re written in C, you’re written in C,
they were basically the same langauge ...
your code right into both worlds. Better yet,
find out what awkward things like
for (std :: vector <std :: string> :: const_iterator i = s.begin (); ...)
since Wget's C code
structures so you can sometimes.
If you’re interested in thinking about this, have a look at the GNU
Maintainer's page (http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html) to
maintainer capacity; please
also see the Wget "Wgiki" (http://wget.addictivecode.org/) for lots of
helpful information about Wget.
In any case, have a happy birthday! I look forward to hearing your answer.
- Yours,
Micah J. Cowan
micah.cowan.name
// © g3n1us.livejournal.com/156224.html
- we have a small Open Source-company, the CEO is now busy developing a very non-trivial robot for downloading and processing C ++ websites;
- In this connection, we have been joking with him for a long time in the style of “it’s enough to reinvent your bike when you have wget for it”;
- A few days ago, the current Wget developer’s announcement appeared on the web that he was going to stop developing and was looking for a successor;
- our director had a birthday the other day;
- We decided to play a trick on him, asking the author Wget to write him a letter with an offer to become a Wget maintener instead of continuing to write his robot.
The result was not long in coming:
From: Dmitry Shurupov <..>
To: Micah Cowan <..>
Subject: Request for helping in making little prank
Date: 1/15/2010 15:08
')
Hello, Micah!
Some days ago, I’ve seen GNU Wget. Also, it’s written to maintain a new FLOSS project.
TrueOffice that specializes in Open Source integration. And we have a strange funny request for you. Our crawler on C ++. It is now being realized in "wget ​​-r" for years.
Tomorrow (this Saturday), our CEO celebrates his birthday. Prank on it with your help. What is it? GNU Wget maintainer (instead of developing its own C ++ Web crawler)? We would appreciate a lot of your help in this fun.
His email is as follows: Dmitry Stolyarov <..>.
Hope, you need to help us with this prank. Thanks in advance.
From Soviet Russia with love :-)
-
Dmitry Shurupov
Chief Technology Officer,
Trueoffice
www.trueoffice.ru
From: Micah Cowan <..>
To: Dmitry Stolyarov <..>
Subject: GNU Wget Maintainer
Date: 1/16/2010 10:49
Hello Mr Stolyarov,
My name is Micah Cowan. Until recently, I was the maintainer of the
widely used command-line web utility, GNU Wget
(http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/). Last weekend, I announced that I
am stepping down from that role (you can see the announcement here:
lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-wget/2010-01/msg00009.html ).
This is a GNU Wget project.
maintainer. I am very interested in learn
working on a tool in C ++, the connectivity is exactly equivalent to
that of GNU Wget. To my mind,
step in as Wget's new maintainer.
Since you’re written in C, you’re written in C,
they were basically the same langauge ...
your code right into both worlds. Better yet,
find out what awkward things like
for (std :: vector <std :: string> :: const_iterator i = s.begin (); ...)
since Wget's C code
structures so you can sometimes.
If you’re interested in thinking about this, have a look at the GNU
Maintainer's page (http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html) to
maintainer capacity; please
also see the Wget "Wgiki" (http://wget.addictivecode.org/) for lots of
helpful information about Wget.
In any case, have a happy birthday! I look forward to hearing your answer.
- Yours,
Micah J. Cowan
micah.cowan.name
// © g3n1us.livejournal.com/156224.html
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/80939/
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