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Re: [News] Free/Open Source Software Discovery Made Easier; Open Source SEO

  • Subject: Re: [News] Free/Open Source Software Discovery Made Easier; Open Source SEO
  • From: "[H]omer" <spam@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 04:35:24 +0100
  • In-reply-to: <1658381.IMHLLU4W43@schestowitz.com>
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Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
> OpenLogic preparing open source software discovery tool
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | The tool identifies software by digital fingerprints, comparing
> | them to OpenLogic's library of 800 of the most commonly used
> | open source packages.
> `----
> 
> http://www.businessreviewonline.com/os/archives/2007/04/openlogic_prepa.html

This seems a bit silly. FOSS packages update so often that yesterdays
"fingerprint" will no longer match today's package. Then there's the
question of the source. If it's a Linux system then the build of the
same version of a package will be different for each distro, and
there'll be multiple versions, and custom builds from source.

RPM/DEB systems track MD5/SHA signatures within a single system ... can
you imagine extending that single database to cover multiple versions of
multiple packages on multiple distros and multiple platforms across
multiple machines?

Maybe it would just be better if developers took responsibility for the
software they install themselves, eh?

I mean certainly, it's a nice idea, but honestly ... I really can't see
it working ... except for a *very* rigid set of parameters.

-- 
K.
http://slated.org

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| which has caused me to lose data ... unfortunately this product
| is unfit for any user. - [H]ardOCP, <http://tinyurl.com/3bpfs2>
`----

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