On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 02:04:16 GMT, billwg <billwg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Kind of cheeky, that Raymond fellow! "The brutal truth is that even the
> largest hardware vendors these days cannot really afford to hire enough
> software engineers to do all the development of software that they would
> like to.
> So here is the hardware vendor with his inability (or at least lack of
> desire) to pay his software people what it takes
The usual billwg distortion and half-truth. There's a big difference
between "all... that they would like" and "what it takes".
To make the point simple (in deference to billwg), let's give an example.
To avoid kidney failure, you need at least 700ml of water per day. That's
"what it takes". But most people like to drink a couple liters or more.
Similarly, companies that offer open-source projects put paid
developers on critical areas. But flourishes and experiments and extras
can come from other developers.
Once you read the quotes in the light of offering a way to *optimize*
development rather than *eke by*, well, billwg's attempted point
evaporates.
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Sincerely,
Ray Ingles sorceror171@xxxxxxxxxxx
"These modern kids don't know the simple joy of saving four bytes of
page-0 memory on a 6502 box." - isomeme
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