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From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>
To: Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw@ithnet.com>,
        Martin Dalecki <dalecki@evision-ventures.com>
Subject: Re: A modest proposal -- We need a patch penguin
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 00:43:08 +0100
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On January 29, 2002 06:37 pm, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Jan 2002 12:45:46 +0100
> Martin Dalecki <dalecki@evision-ventures.com> wrote:
> > Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > >On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Larry McVoy wrote:
> > >>What you didn't do, Linus, is paint a picture which allows development
> > >>to scale up.
> > >
> > >Actually, I thought I did.
> > >
> > >Basic premise: development is done by humans.
> > >
> > >Now, look at how humans work. I don't know _anybody_ who works with
> > >hundreds of people. You work with 5-10 people, out of a pool of maybe
> > >30-50 people. Agreed?
> > >
> > Not at all. Please have a look at the ARMY. (A tightly hierarchical 
> > system...)
> 
> Shoot me: where the heck is the creative/innovative element inside the ARMY?
> It just died somewhere down the hierarchy tree...
> Ants are a very successful species, too, but they will hardly ever write
> software (personal guess).

Correct, they don't write it, they evolve it.

/me ducks and runs for cover

-- 
Daniel
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