On Saturday 02 December 2006 18:30, Andrew N. Shrosbree wrote: > There are millions of bright programmers out there: what we severely > lack (perhaps worldwide) is IT managers who have hands-on coding > experience. Programmers do not function efficiently when they are > managed by paper-pushing bureaucrats called 'middle-managers', yet > leaving them to their own creative devices is akin to letting children > play with razor blades.
Amen. I fully agree. A middle way is necessary. Google may be one of the few companies who found it - allowing creativity without degenerating into unproductivity. An example to everybody, they deserve their success. (but I did and still do let my children play with razor blades - seriously. I rather have a child with cut hands, than a fuckwit without any practical experience, lifelong dependent on mommy, incapable of taking responsibility for their own actions. Within a *family*, things can be kept under very loose control and still work well, and in many ways open source communities can be like families) Horst _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
