Update on Alan Cox's Sabbatical

seymansey writes "ITWales, a company which resides on the Swansea University Campus has posted an interview with Alan Cox regarding his progress of his MBA. It also mentions his opinions on some legal matters that he shows interest in, as well as his plans for the future, and of course for Linux itself."

Comments

Re:Who the fuck writes this tripe?

[tomstdenis]

That sounds like someone who isn't responsible for working code speaking...

A developer plans, organizes, designs and makes sure that the end product meets specifications [e.g. on time, within budget and does what the requirements state].

A programmer [or hacker] takes a problem and writes code to solve it. They're not responsible for the bigger picture and they certainly don't control the design or requirements.

Think of a developer as an engineer/architect and a programmer as a construction crew worker. They're both skilled people in their own respects just one position is a tad more academic than the other.

I'd trust an architect or engineer more to design my house than I would a carpenter or welder. Just like I'd trust a software developer more to engineer a system to fulfill my requirements more than I would a programmer who only thinks about the coding aspect and nothing else.

And if still don't think I have a valid point look at the # of dormant OSS libraries out there that mirror functionality. They were all written by programmers who saw an immediate problem and churned out the code to solve it [or at least partly solve it]. A true developer would have made a quality library [or improved an existing one] followed specs to the "T" and produced a library others would use instead of inventing their own...

tom

Tom