Blog of Leonid Mamchenkov

There has been much said about the fun of open source. Not many though do understand what it was said about. So, here is a quote from /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf file of Apache web server configuration, that was shipped with Fedora Linu Core 5 (it’s safe to assume that many other Linux distributions have the same file):

# Do NOT simply read the instructions in here without
# understanding what they do.

Makes you smile, doesn’t it?

Just one simple sentence, and you can feel that there are real people behind the project, not some faceless corporation. People, who care. People, who have their own opinions and attitudes.

Do NOT simply read … without understanding …