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I don't think this is peculiar to software development though. The same is true of discussion fora, gaming organisations, multinational businesses - the extent
by eponeponepon 9y ago
I don't think this is peculiar to software development though. The same is true of discussion fora, gaming organisations, multinational businesses - the extent to which it's an issue in the modern connected world is greater, sure, but it's not a direct result of wider communication. I'm willing to bet it was an issue thousands of years ago in busy trading centres too.
edit: this is an interesting aside: "Coming up with a more formalised set of considerations for external behaviour would help there."
Isn't this to some extent what religions have been trying to do for millennia?
- mjg59 9y agoThe same is true of those other groups, but the goals and incentive structures are somewhat different there. The prevalence of codes of conduct in open source projects and relative rarity of them in other online groups suggests that there's some sort of difference in how people view them.