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diff --git a/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/bug-nobody-allowed-to-understand.html b/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/bug-nobody-allowed-to-understand.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..edd440b --- /dev/null +++ b/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/bug-nobody-allowed-to-understand.html @@ -0,0 +1,88 @@ +<!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" --> +<!-- Parent-Version: 1.77 --> +<title>The Bug Nobody is Allowed to Understand +- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title> +<!--#include virtual="/philosophy/po/bug-nobody-allowed-to-understand.translist" --> +<!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" --> +<h2>The Bug Nobody is Allowed to Understand</h2> + +<p>by <a href="http://www.stallman.org/">Richard Stallman</a></p> + +<p>In the 1980s, proprietary software users discovered the problem of +<em>the bug that nobody is allowed to understand</em>. When a problem +occurs in the interaction of multiple proprietary software packages +with different developers, none of them is allowed to study the source +code of all the pertinent programs. As a result, none of them can +understand the bad interaction between them, and the bug is never +fixed except by accident.</p> + +<p>According to <a +href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/joris-luyendijk-banking-blog/2012/may/30/former-it-salesman-voices-of-finance"> +this article</a>, a similar problem now occurs between +multiple instances of +<a href="/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html">Service as a Software Substitute</a>.</p> + +</div><!-- for id="content", starts in the include above --> +<!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" --> +<div id="footer"> +<div class="unprintable"> + +<p>Please send general FSF & GNU inquiries to +<a href="mailto:gnu@gnu.org"><gnu@gnu.org></a>. +There are also <a href="/contact/">other ways to contact</a> +the FSF. Broken links and other corrections or suggestions can be sent +to <a href="mailto:webmasters@gnu.org"><webmasters@gnu.org></a>.</p> + +<p><!-- TRANSLATORS: Ignore the original text in this paragraph, + replace it with the translation of these two: + + We work hard and do our best to provide accurate, good quality + translations. However, we are not exempt from imperfection. + Please send your comments and general suggestions in this regard + to <a href="mailto:web-translators@gnu.org"> + <web-translators@gnu.org></a>.</p> + + <p>For information on coordinating and submitting translations of + our web pages, see <a + href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations + README</a>. --> +Please see the <a +href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations +README</a> for information on coordinating and submitting translations +of this article.</p> +</div> + +<!-- Regarding copyright, in general, standalone pages (as opposed to + files generated as part of manuals) on the GNU web server should + be under CC BY-ND 4.0. Please do NOT change or remove this + without talking with the webmasters or licensing team first. + Please make sure the copyright date is consistent with the + document. For web pages, it is ok to list just the latest year the + document was modified, or published. + + If you wish to list earlier years, that is ok too. + Either "2001, 2002, 2003" or "2001-2003" are ok for specifying + years, as long as each year in the range is in fact a copyrightable + year, i.e., a year in which the document was published (including + being publicly visible on the web or in a revision control system). + + There is more detail about copyright years in the GNU Maintainers + Information document, www.gnu.org/prep/maintain. --> + +<p>Copyright © 2014, 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.</p> + +<p>This page is licensed under a <a rel="license" +href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/">Creative +Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License</a>.</p> + +<!--#include virtual="/server/bottom-notes.html" --> + +<p class="unprintable">Updated: +<!-- timestamp start --> +$Date: 2015/10/16 13:25:20 $ +<!-- timestamp end --> +</p> +</div> +</div> +</body> +</html> |