Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 9th Dec 2005 11:56 UTC, submitted by Dave Guard
'Dude, I can, like, totally do that way cheaper with Linux and stuff.' These were the words of a bearded geek running Linux on his digital watch. As he proceeded to cut and patch alpha code into the Linux kernel running on the production database system, the manager watched on in admiration. Six months later, long after the young hacker decided to move into a commune in the Santa Cruz hills, something broke. Was it really 'way' cheaper?"
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RE[3]: Dijkstra in 1988 knew: we like incremental changes
by Sphinx on Fri 9th Dec 2005 22:17
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I don't care how many million monkeys you have, they can't write plays.
Ah, yes, the monkey analogy. A million monkeys can't write plays. But how many plays do you watch? Have you ever seen a play? No, because you want TV and Movies from Hollywood. If you take a million monkeys and give them big colorful glowing buttons with diagrams draw on them depicting plot points they can make you a blockbuster with a few hundred million dollars. Just like they can make you a shiny new operating system with the same cash.
But your analogy breaks down when you realize we're talking about a million humans. One of those could also make an operating system and they might do a better job of it than your democratic monkeys.