| William H. Magill on 19 Nov 2003 11:18:02 -0500 |
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On 18 Nov, 2003, at 20:48, Tobias DiPasquale wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 20:22, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:I'm using the same crap the rest of you are. I just have the guts to call it what it is.
I'm sorry, but that is a "learned behavior" and simply not true. The attitude that the Computing Industry shouldn't expect things to work is CRAP! I've been in this business a very long time and without a doubt, the software industry today, to use the vernacular, "sucks big time, and they don't give a shit." And now they are upset because their "jobs" are being farmed out to other coders who don't give a damm either and who happen to live in India. If American Software writers produced quality products, they wouldn't have to worry about "foreign competition," but since "its good enough" is the motto of the industry cheap labor can generate stuff that's "good enough" cheaper than the expensive American's can. The Computer Industry today is copying the Automotive Industry -- Arrogance and Laziness are their watchwords. Lack of concern and poor to nonexistent quality controls are their mentors. ... and just this past week we awoke to discover that, in terms of unit sales, the number two automobile company in the world is no longer Ford, but Honda. That leaves Americans with only General Motors at the top of the heap -- Chrysler now belongs to the Germans, remember. Those of us who entered the Computing Industry by way of Engineering believe strongly that "things should work." That is the Engineer's job -- to take the crap the designers come up with and "make it work." There is only one Computing company that comes close to maintaining the standards of Engineering and that is IBM. SCO is so committed to quality and creativity that since they can't produce anything, they want to prevent anybody else from creating anything either. Novell is so committed to quality and creativity that they go out and buy what they can't produce. Ditto for what used to be Compaq and is now HP. Sun has a myopic vision and enjoys beating a dead horse. They still think that SPARC is real and that Solaris works. Will the Open Source movement survive Linus? Probably not. Linux definitely won't and without Linux entropy ensues and the "norm" reverts to Redmond. The problem with the Computing Industry today is the attitude -- "Never install release 1.0 because it doesn't work."
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