Some progress with httpd on Busybox 1.1.3

Denys Vlasenko vda.linux at googlemail.com
Thu Feb 11 12:49:11 UTC 2010


On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 7:21 AM, Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:
> I do know a lot of breakage has since been fixed and cleanups made.  (Back then
> httpd was maintained by an insane russian who posted and read messages via
> translation software instead of actually learning english,

Vladimir Oleynik.
Actually I don't think he used a translator,
he was genuinely try to speak English.
He is just one of those people for whom learning foreign
languages is _hard_. Not everyone is equally good at it.

> and freaked if anyone else touched "his" code.

Unfortunately, it is not at all untypical behavior for many.

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vda


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