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Tetris Creator Claims FOSS Destroys the Market
alx5000 writes "In an interview conducted last week with Consumer Eroski (link in Spanish; Google translation), the father of Tetris Alexey Pajitnov claimed that 'Free Software should have never existed,' since it 'destroys the market' by bringing down companies that create wealth and prosperity. When asked about Red Hat or Oracle's support-oriented model, he called them 'a minority,' and also criticized Stallman's ideas as 'belonging to the past' where there were no software 'business possibilities.'"
3 simple 5teps! Could sink your Good manners
I managed a 20 man development team using Java/J2EE for 5 years and all I can say it was a real disaster. The whole open source thing has given the false impression that the barrier to entry is low and products can be had for cheap. Not true, all you get, is pretenders/posers that sling the buzzwords but with no experience. I had to recruit 15 of the developers during the dot com bust. The resumes I saw all had a common thread: 5 years or less experience, average time on job less than a year, but a steady procession of fancy titles with little or no product development experience, vastly inflated expectations and salary claims. It took me hundreds of hours to weed through almost a thousand resumes to find 15 good ones. Forget the technology how many years on the job, was there a commercial product released that someone actually uses. The worst part of it was that senior management fell for the buzzwords and promoted people to senior positions that had never released a single product and spent their time memorizing buzzwords and downloading demos. One delivered an application that ping'd printers and called it a network monitoring system, then he architected a database for a product by serializing blobs and storing them remotely, deserializing blobs across multiple generations of JRE releases is, to put it mildly, problematic. Then came XP a very poor substitute for the proven techniques of analysis and design. A whole cadre of project managers have been developed whose sole skill is asking the question 'are you done yet'? You get experts at playing name that tune: I can name that tune in one note. Somehow these people alway manage to switch projects after the credit is given but before the release. That's a Design Anti Pattern for certain. Release! I would call it more like an escape leaving a bloody trail in their wake. Say what you want about the military industrial complex they do make products that actually work. The whole Java/J2EE things has been a scam, it was designed to thwart Microsoft on the desktop and the datacenter. Sun lost that badly and the stockholders have suffered tremendously for McNealy et al disastrous visoin of the computing future. Sun now gives away Java, Solaris, Sun Studio, MySQL and Star Office. If I was a stockholder in Sun I would go after these boobs in a class action suit. They have wrecked the industry for years to com. In a strange way this plays right into the hands of the big boys SAP, Oracle, IBM who can actually deliver systems. As I have said it's not the tool, but the person using it. Eric Clapton certainly makes my guitar sound better than I can. In the end Sun tanked themselves and everyone that bought into their model. The finest example Red Hat with $2 billion dollar market cap for a year when they lost $100K on $10 million in sales. Sadly it was our future in 401K's that paid the price. McNealy sells his stock and tells you to buy it. Put the crack pipe down, put your hands over your head, and step away from the computer!