Joshua Allen responds to other posts which try to show how one gets more tolerant of software which sucks when you are writing software yourself. Joshua doesn't buy that argument and continues on about some of the wastes in software and how they can be a reason for long hours most coders work.
I was agreeing with all of this (and still do) but then he had to throw a crack about open source into the post. He wonders how many man-hours have been spent building a clone of Unix. Of course, there are so many other areas of open source software, it's just silly to try and only use those developing for the kernel as a proof for open source being one of the biggest black-holes sucking away human talent needlessly. What exactly should these people do? If they are enjoying writing code, what exactly is the problem? How is that affecting the human talent? If anything, it is making that talent even better.
Posted by Josh at November 26, 2003 01:10 AM | TrackBack