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The amount of effort he was willing to put in to release free software amazes me.
by tigerthink 17y ago
The amount of effort he was willing to put in to release free software amazes me.
- davidw 17y agoHave an idea of how many "man-years" of effort there are in things like Ruby, Python, Linux, Apache, Postgres, GCC, etc... etc... ?
- metachor 17y agoYes, but in this case the software in question is a tip calculator and Dali clock.
- joezydeco 17y agoBut now he's seen that it's not worth spending the time developing a full application. Writing a toy program is how most developers explore a new framework start to finish. In this case, submitting a "Hello World" or "Tip Calculator" application as a test was very revealing.