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This is an excellent point. Had Joel Spolsky 'shared' the bug tracking system in such a cooperative pool, things would have turned out dramatically different f
by Kaizyn 19y ago
This is an excellent point. Had Joel Spolsky 'shared' the bug tracking system in such a cooperative pool, things would have turned out dramatically different for FogBugz.
- darose 19y agoAbsolutely true. He could have wound up being the creator of THE major bug tracking system, used by nearly all web developers, large and small, and have created a major company that makes loads of money off of providing services, enhancements, training, etc. to the massive ecosystem of users that he created. Instead, he runs a small, fairly non-influential company that sells a pretty minor, non-differentiated, proprietary bug tracking system that nobody in the mainstream tech community uses. Dunno - sharing worked pretty well for RedHat and MySQL.
- alaskamiller 19y agoWho actually uses FogBugz? All his blog marketing does is make you think people use it but here in Silicon Valley I've rarely heard anyone use it.
- Andys 19y agoI did a stint at a company who had bought it, and no one was using it. All the developers expressed disgust at its user-interface, and management didn't care what they used so they ended up writing their own.