Spolsky Stands Firm on Linux on the Desktop

erlando writes: "SoftwareMarketSolution is running an interview with Joel Spolsky (from JoelOnSoftware) in which he responds to this earlier thread here on Slashdot. In short: He defends his position and makes some interesting remarks on Linux and the desktop."

Comments

I never contradict myself ... well sometimes I do

[Zero__Kelvin]

"Half the time when I go into a function to fix a little bug, I figure out a cleaner way to rewrite the whole function, so over time it gets better and better. "

So it's not that his code rots with time ... it started out that way 8^}

Sounds like he could save quite a bit of time and maintanence nightmare if he just invested the effort to write it well the first time. It may sound negative, but this guy is a constant wealth of contradictions. He doesn't advocate re-writes of the product, but 'half the time' re-writes functions? Doesn't he know that the function *is* a product?

He's a wimp.

[mjh]

I mean, really. It's not like slashdot prevents him from responding to these comments directly! But, no instead, he responds in a nice controlled environment of a follup interview! C'mon, Joel. Don't trust your point of view enough to defend it in person?