Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 28th Nov 2006 12:47 UTC, submitted by Governa
"I worked at Microsoft for about 7 years total, from 1994 to 1998, and from 2002 to 2006.The most frustrating year of those seven was the year I spent working on Windows Vista, which was called Longhorn at the time. I spent a full year working on a feature which should've been designed, implemented and tested in a week."
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2005-08-27
yeah, because with FOSS OSes you have millions of lines of code that are without standards and are just hacked together to make things even worse and takes you even longer to fix a problem.
Yes, I am a programmer and I know how big projects can get out of hand.
Nobody really wins in any of these cases with windows or FOSS because the projects are too big and complex for humans (even if you build in a modular and object state).
Without coding reviews, security reviews, and coding standards are you really going to get far with huge and complex projects? Nope.
These are the reasons why I don't think FOSS is the total answer either.