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But just because they're paid to do it doesn't mean they care, or that they're any good at it.
by br3w5 12y ago
But just because they're paid to do it doesn't mean they care, or that they're any good at it.
- JoachimS 12y agoHeadcount. Given enough headcount all problems are solved in line with the time plan is the enterprise version of the law. With enough engineers, you can just treat them as replaceable units, just numbers in an Excel sheet. Move them around as needed to meet staffing requirements, or resource allocation requests as they are often called. (No, I'm not cynic at all.)
- t_7u_ol8 12y agoYou can apply that attitude in general to open source software as well. Most people using open source software trust it as implicitly as they would have to trust closed source software, they have to, because reviewing and comprehending all of the code running on any typical machine is impossible. Most people simply use open source and don't care about (or aren't capable of) dealing with the code, and of the ones that do, there is no guarantee that they're going to be competent.
- br3w5 12y agoTotally true - i think if you want to use open source you should be prepared to read the code in order to understand it and for debugging