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OS/360? https://sudonull.com/post/111636-IBM-System-360-A-Failing-Story https://sudonull.com/post/111636-IBM-System-360-A-Failing-St... I think we've seen thi

OS/360? https://sudonull.com/post/111636-IBM-System-360-A-Failing-Story https://sudonull.com/post/111636-IBM-System-360-A-Failing-St... I think we've seen this with the rise and fall of hardware vendors. Most recently with the Mobile OS ecosystem (symbian, windows mobile)

popcorncowboy 4y ago
My issue lies with software engineers making associations that society is like software. The causal factors behind why societies fail and why software projects fail are completely different. Complexity is a description of the system and a very bad measure to draw an equivalence between the two. The risk with drawing this equivalence is it grants license to software engineers to think that similar enough models apply to "managing software" as "managing societies". Because when all you have is a hammer... But society is not a nail.