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Shuttleworth on Open Source Development
An anonymous reader writes "Mark Shuttleworth (retired cosmonaut and Ubuntu daddy) has written an informative blog entry about the problems associated with open source development. He found that paying geeks to code without assigning them managers lead to "shiny geek toys", rather than the product he was actually paying for. Shuttleworth says that left-field thinking is required when it comes to managing open source teams. See also Andrew Orlowski's analysis of why AOL eventually killed the Netscape project from a few years ago, where he describes Mozilla developers as "wandering off into Lotus-eating land"."
A tad bit old, yes. The Registry article equally so. Is this blast from the past Tuesday here on /.? If so, might I request an article or two on Deborah Harry of Blondie fame? Circa 1982? I've been thinking about her all day long. Just make something up about guitar technology or somethiing to CYA on a tech news site afterall. And please include pics of Deborah and the guitar, or just Deborah. You decide.
I hope, when they die, cartoon characters have to answer for their sins.
From the article:
This entry was posted on Friday, November 21st, 2003 at 6:48 pm...
A little out of touch maybe?
No, no, it just took that long to be signed off by all the department heads and then approved by upper management.
There are no loopholes. It's either legal or it's not.
Valve did that and it seemed to work out just fine for them
/ducks
Stop Global Warming!
Just say no to irreversible processes!
Geez, the guy posts a minute after the previous post (so he probably didn't see it) and he gets modded -1 (redundant). Won't anyone think of the latency?