Luiz Esmiralha wrote:
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> Very strong bonds can exist between people who never met physically.
> My grandma and grandpa fell in love for each other through letters.
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Two observations:
o Obviously your grandparents felt it important eventually
to meet physically. Else, perhaps, it would not be you
making these contributions to the list. :-)
o There is something engaging and charming about the notion
of collaborative design accomplished through letters.
High latency, but perhaps deeper and more thoughtful
consideration. (The list shows occasional examples of
communication entered into with less than optimal
consideration. :-) )
I'm guessing that some approximation of this approach
would be several of the open source projects. Somebody
writes some source, somebody(ies) else looks at it over
a period of time, adds, merges, criticizes, doesn't merge,
offers alternative, etc.
I'm trying to imagine whether there should be construed a
continuum between the pairing activity and the high-latency
communication of such distributed projects. Can one regard
the communication between, say, Linus and his kernel
developers as any species at all of high-latency pairing?
Or are these activities so qualitatively different that
any such construction would be a disservice to developers?
Great question for Ron!
LB
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