Comments on: Morons on Open Sourcing http://nslog.com/2002/12/22/morons_on_open_sourcing The Weblog of Erik J. Barzeski Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:42:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Sepehr http://nslog.com/2002/12/22/morons_on_open_sourcing#comment-31 Sepehr Wed, 23 Mar 2005 03:25:37 +0000 http://nslog.com/2002/12/22/morons_on_open_sourcing/#comment-31 Tom Clancy is a crappy arthur who needs to be slapped. His novels are repetitive shit. Tom Clancy is a crappy arthur who needs to be slapped. His novels are repetitive shit.

]]> By: William Herold http://nslog.com/2002/12/22/morons_on_open_sourcing#comment-30 William Herold Wed, 11 Aug 2004 00:14:48 +0000 http://nslog.com/2002/12/22/morons_on_open_sourcing/#comment-30 ...now I'm truly reaching back to the dawn of time, but when I find a rich vein of thought I like to follow it to the end. Thanks for keeping a great development blog! You hit the nail on the head with this one, or, more precisely, you hit two nails on the head: 1.)Quality "Code for Microsoft applications is viewed by tens or even hundreds of people by the time it makes it to the store shelf." I was a sr. dev at Microsoft - I know this is true. 2.)Competition "The only people outside of the company who releases the product that would care about the product's source code are the product's competitors." Why is this so hard for people to understand? I'm not opposed to open source per-se, but it's patently silly to assume it can replace all other forms of development. If I'm writing a software product for profit why the heck would I want to share the means to produce my product with competitors? This seems to dovetail with Joel Spolsky's rant about not outsourcing core-competencies. ...now I'm truly reaching back to the dawn of time, but when I find a rich vein of thought I like to follow it to the end. Thanks for keeping a great development blog!

You hit the nail on the head with this one, or, more precisely, you hit two nails on the head:

1.)Quality

"Code for Microsoft applications is viewed by tens or even hundreds of people by the time it makes it to the store shelf."

I was a sr. dev at Microsoft - I know this is true.

2.)Competition

"The only people outside of the company who releases the product that would care about the product's source code are the product's competitors."

Why is this so hard for people to understand?

I'm not opposed to open source per-se, but it's patently silly to assume it can replace all other forms of development. If I'm writing a software product for profit why the heck would I want to share the means to produce my product with competitors?

This seems to dovetail with Joel Spolsky's rant about not outsourcing core-competencies.

]]> By: Open Source Everything! | NSLog(); http://nslog.com/2002/12/22/morons_on_open_sourcing#comment-32 Open Source Everything! | NSLog(); Sun, 23 Feb 2003 13:35:05 +0000 http://nslog.com/2002/12/22/morons_on_open_sourcing/#comment-32 In response to my previous post on open sourcing software, I decided to come up with a list of similar things to including the source code with all software. If software was required to ship with the source code, then:All novels should ship with every ... In response to my previous post on open sourcing software, I decided to come up with a list of similar things to including the source code with all software. If software was required to ship with the source code, then:All novels should ship with every ...

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