On Friday, 16 May 2014 at 15:02:42 UTC, Etienne wrote:
On 2014-05-16 10:57 AM, Chris wrote:
And companies are run by humans, if I'm not completely
mistaken. It's
not the army that kills people, it's the humans in the army
that kill
other humans. Stoutly reasoned!
Hatred for humans because they serve other humans under a
banner is
just plain ignorance
Who's talking about hatred? Being skeptical doesn't involve
hatred. The
thing is that the best engineers cannot put their ideas into
practice,
if the company rejects it for whatever reason (there are so
many, partly
highly ridiculous, reasons why good ideas have been rejected,
one could
write a book about it). And yes, if humans serve under a
banner, you
have the right to criticize them, because they accept the
banner and
what it stands for. The fact that we all have to serve
somebody to put
food on our tables, doesn't mean it is right.
I think we're both right, just arguing about the risks of both
extremities of the evilness scale in companies. They can be
really good, and really bad. Break down those too big to fail
more power to the people etc. etc.
Yep. Look at the open source communities, all the forks and
fights. There used to be Tango vs Phobos. On the other hand, it's
good that people can just do their own thing, if they're not
happy with an existing project (for what ever reason). With
companies, you have to stick with whatever decision they make,
you ain't got no choice there. I remember that Apple removed my
development tools after an upgrade and I had to download them
again through the AppStore (had to register etc.). That was it
for me. Good night! I'm on ArchLinux now. Never looked back.
