Found Eugene’s blog today, and have to completely agree with his post: DIY and NIH Syndromes.

Particularly:

In most cases DIY and NIH are not justified. If you see something like that you may assume that developers didn’t do their homework, which is not acceptable in the Internet era. In many cases this ignorance is combined with aggressive protection of irrational decisions.

and:

In my opinion the most productive contribution to software industry is to select one of high quality libraries and improve it. What about a talented lone coder? Even a genius will reach stars faster standing on shoulders of giants.

Right on, and oh yeah, subscribed.

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I gave up on the code compiling ever again (tried for 3 months with latest from CVS), and just download the version from the Apple website here.

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