Putty is great and I thank him for this work :)
I only use it privately now because our work doesn't allow it anymore since openssh was included with Windows. But I still prefer it.
Putty maintainer on his attitude towards security and open source
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Re: Putty maintainer on his attitude towards security and open source
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
He has a collection of puzzle games you can download and waste time playing.
Gee, thanks :D. I didn't know that at all and the article has no hints about that. I came to that possibility but it was reaaaally out of context and off without prior knowledge. Thanks for confirming it, I really didn't understand what was what. edit: I took a look at the page again and there are no links or mentions of puzzles or something, I knew I wasn't crazy (or that dense) !
The hint is clearly in the sentence you're confused about -- that he has also created some puzzle games is the only plausible explanation.
Re: Putty maintainer on his attitude towards security and open source
#33Great footnote from the article: > I'm often amused that people compliment me on things like PuTTY by telling me how much of their time it saved, whereas people compliment me on my puzzle game collection by telling me how much of their time it wasted.
I don't understand that sentence. Why would his puzzle game collection waste anybody's time ? How come people know about it or even care ?
"SGT Puzzles" or, sometimes, "Simon's Puzzles" is a collection of single player puzzle games that has been ported to many, many platforms.
If you can think of a non-card solitaire game, it's probably implemented.
Re: Putty maintainer on his attitude towards security and open source
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
He has a collection of puzzle games you can download and waste time playing.
Gee, thanks :D. I didn't know that at all and the article has no hints about that. I came to that possibility but it was reaaaally out of context and off without prior knowledge. Thanks for confirming it, I really didn't understand what was what. edit: I took a look at the page again and there are no links or mentions of puzzles or something, I knew I wasn't crazy (or that dense) !
It was implied. You don't need prior knowledge to deduce it, except the knowledge to ask the questions you wrote in your other comments.
Re: Putty maintainer on his attitude towards security and open source
#35How nice it is to see somebody who actually read the license they released their code under and accepts the results:)
Indeed. Though I wonder how many of the “big tech profits from open source and doesn’t pay the maintainers” complaints are from actual maintainers vs. observers with a general axe to grind against big tech.
Re: Putty maintainer on his attitude towards security and open source
#36These days, there seems to be (at least) two kinds of open source software developers:
0. Those who release their code under an open source license, in the hope that it will be useful to others in some way.
1. Those who do the same as above, with the additional hope that they will be paid for in some ill-defined way. And when they are not, take to twitter and blogs to proclaim, "somebody should really do something about this!"
Re: Putty maintainer on his attitude towards security and open source
#37This sort of thing should be required reading by everyone who interacts with open source software. So many folks come in with a chip on their shoulder, missing the forest for the trees. If every developer modeled themselves after Tatham's attitude, we probably wouldn't be having most of these conversations around open source right now. And issue trackers might be a more peaceful place. edit: fixed the author!
Tatham, rather than Ducker - the former wrote a comment on the latter's link blog.
Indeed, Simon drops by occasionally and leaves a comment if he fancies. This one was so good I thought it was worth sharing more widely.
Re: Putty maintainer on his attitude towards security and open source
#38I once used PuTTY as the base for an internal SSH tool. We needed to provide data entry teams with access to a green screen but didn’t want to expose any more servers than what they were authorised to use and a simple interface because a lot of the data entry guys were technologically illiterate. After spending hours looking for solutions that were purpose built for this kind of thing I gave up took PuTTYs source and…
For me putty is still preferred way to ssh with Windows. Nowadays windows is shipping openssh.exe, so I can run it from cmd and it kinda works for quick simple actions, but clipboard works weirdly, basically I have to use right-click/paste to reliably paste data, shift+insert works in some apps and does not work in others. Putty just works like it worked 10 years ago, it's good old reliable tool.
Re: Putty maintainer on his attitude towards security and open source
#39These days, there seems to be (at least) two kinds of open source software developers: 0. Those who release their code under an open source license, in the hope that it will be useful to others in some way. 1. Those who do the same as above, with the additional hope that they will be paid for in some ill-defined way. And when they are not, take to twitter and blogs to proclaim, "somebody should really do something ab…
I do think there is a real problem whereby very important code that a lot of people and systems depend on is looked after part time (or not at all) and nobody thinks about it until it has a severe bug.
But that's almost orthogonal to the issue of whether the original developer should be paid because their code turns out to be useful to lots of people.
Re: Putty maintainer on his attitude towards security and open source
#40I also find the opposite true--reminding colleagues that using OSS means we have to own and maintain the software whether the original community/author does or not. There seems to be a hesitance to fork abandoned or slow moving software to update/fix issues
It's easier to blame a nebulous 3rd party than to take responsibility.