On May 8, 2008, at 3:32 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote:
With rare exception (there are geniuses among us), it's pretty hard for one person to accomplish all that much, in a short amount of time, in odd hours outside their day job. At least none of the interesting projects I've been involved with required at least 6 months of full-time work show initial results - not a part-time endeavor.
From tiny acorns do mighty oak trees grow. Mapserver started with a shape file -> image renderer and an HTML templating engine. Working, useful, code. From that, you can grow a community, who can grow the code. It might seem impossible to iteratively turn a Piper Cub into a 737, but in the software world it seems to happen all the time.
Linus didn't write all of Linux. But he wrote enough for it to be useful.
Too much philosophy, not enough code. :) P. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
