Comments on: Are you promoting someone else’s site without even knowing it? http://www.prusak.com/are-you-promoting-someone-elses-site-without-even-knowing-it/ Online Since 1996 Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:14:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: John Andrews http://www.prusak.com/are-you-promoting-someone-elses-site-without-even-knowing-it/comment-page-1/#comment-162 John Andrews Mon, 13 Feb 2006 08:20:25 +0000 http://www.prusak.com/archives/2006-02-09/are-you-promoting-someone-elses-site-without-even-knowing-it/#comment-162 A lesson to everyone that code is not free, and while open source is great for productivity, it is not because you don't have to review the code. Hopefully it is faster and more efficient to *carefully review* someones contribution, than it would be to create it from scratch, and "many eyes" on code can keep bug counts down. This one bothers me because it exploits ignorance of specialized knowledge coders may not have (that user-agent cloaking can get your ste banned by Google). Even if carefuly reviewed by many eyes, the cloaking issue may have slipped through. A lesson to everyone that code is not free, and while open source is great for productivity, it is not because you don’t have to review the code. Hopefully it is faster and more efficient to *carefully review* someones contribution, than it would be to create it from scratch, and “many eyes” on code can keep bug counts down.

This one bothers me because it exploits ignorance of specialized knowledge coders may not have (that user-agent cloaking can get your ste banned by Google). Even if carefuly reviewed by many eyes, the cloaking issue may have slipped through.

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