On Sat, 25 Oct 2014, DRC wrote: > (performance, perhaps), but after 18 years as a professional developer > and 10 years as a professional open source developer, I have noticed a > trend recently whereby developers seem to want to change things just for > the sake of changing things (systemd, anyone?) and new code seems to be > valued more than old, regardless of whether the new code actually > represents an improvement for the end user. I see projects re-inventing > the whole wheel when just changing one of the spokes would be > sufficient, or re-inventing the wheel so it can handle terrain that will > only be encountered 1% of the time, or even worse, re-inventing the > wheel because of the possibility of encountering terrain that, in > reality, will likely never be encountered. When I see this, it doesn't
I totally agree with you on this one. I guess people thinks it's more fun to work with new projects and new code, than to maintain old stuff. But this idea of "new" = "always better" is present in the entire industry; not just in the open source community. /Still running Windows XP64 on my laptop. --- Peter Astrand ThinLinc Chief Developer Cendio AB http://cendio.com Teknikringen 8 http://twitter.com/ThinLinc 583 30 Linkoping http://facebook.com/ThinLinc Phone: +46-13-214600 http://google.com/+CendioThinLinc ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ VirtualGL-Users mailing list VirtualGL-Users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/virtualgl-users
