“They say that motorcycle riders go through three stages: fear, over-confidence, and finally respectful care. The same stages apply to OS programmers. Motorcyclists in the over-confident stage may be injured or killed. Programmers can create a subtle defect that is fantastically expensive to remove.” Read the OS Manifesto at Byte.
The OS Manifesto
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Eugenia Loli
Ex-programmer, ex-editor in chief at OSNews.com, now a visual artist/filmmaker.
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Well worth to read.
If this is so well known but unwritten (’till now) where are the programmers who abide?????
To programmer heaven of course.. silly
Good article.