Re: [LUG] Excel mangles genes draft letter

["Adrian Midgley" <amidgley2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 13:33:33 +0100, John Daragon <john@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


> You can say that again ... The idealised bit, that is. And I think you're
> wrong. What Open Source really does is to expose the quality of code to  
> the
> world, and to enable someone who doesn't like the way something is  
> designed
> to change it (providing they can be bothered to lear the language du  
> jour and
> understand the source). My experience is that distributed design  
> generates
> bad software in the same way that modern epidemiology generates junk  
> science.

Sturgeon's law applies of course.

But observing the SPF development process and contrasting it to the  
development processes involving closed source in which I've had  
involvement, no, I retain teh impression of a parallel, sometimes  
conscious and deliberate and from theory, with science.

I sense an axe related to epidemiology - lets discuss it over a pint at  
the John Snow one day.

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AKM
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