[ale] Ernie Ball says F.Y. to Microsoft

[Christopher Fowler]

On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 06:41:45PM -0400, James Sumners wrote:
> Speaking from a developer stand point you should let him take a break from the
> normal work to work on other things. If you have him constantly working on the
> same code all day, day in and day out, he is going to get bored with it and
> start writting bad code. Not really out of spite, just because he does not
> want to look at, or deal with, that code any more. Letting a programmer write
> some fresh code that he wants to write as a relief from "the job" will result
> in a better product for you thus justifying your nickel being spent.
> 
> Just my opinion. I could be wrong.


I am a developer too and I get tired of writing the same code.  We do not
write one application we are working on a whole embedded system.  Every time
he codes it may be a differenct piece of code.  I throw him a variety of things
to do.

> 
> <quote who="Christopher Fowler">
> > I have a developer that works for me that sometimes writes OS code and
> > contributes
> > back on our nicel.  It may be greedy but him and I have got in arguments over
> > why I should pay him per hour to develop software that others can use for free
> > and save money over us.  We've extended a few OS projects to make
> > them work much better IMO but I've had to pay him to do that while freeloaders
> > reap rewards.  However we did reap some rewards from starting with the code
> > base to begin with.  Its just to make certain OS project useable we had to
> > "fix" them.
> >
> > Chris
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> I used to be interested in Windows NT, but the more I see of it the more it
> looks like traditional Windows with a stabler kernel. I don't find anything
> technically interesting there. In my opinion MS is a lot better at making
> money than it is at making good operating systems.  -- Linus Torvalds
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