Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
Bob La Quey wrote:
Chuck's point, over and over again, is that our committee
approach to design (both of hardware and software) inevitably
leads to huge amounts of unnecessary complexity. Since most of
us are not as bright as Chuck and rarely can find employment
free from the burden of "the committee" we necessarily think
Chuck must be wrong.
And here is where I disagree.
Open source software is free of the "committee" effect.
Not the ones I've worked on. Two examples I can remember: The Linux
kernel and Crystal Space. Both were several years ago, but both had
areas that suffered from the effect. The latter being bad enough that I
dropped out of the development because I could not deal with the
inefficiencies that resulted from it. I have often wondered how it's
progressed since then.
So, I would rephrase the statement to be something like 'Much of Open
Source software is free of the "committee" effect.'
PGA
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