> On Jun 26, 2015, at 3:08 PM, David Lang <da...@lang.hm> wrote: > >> On Fri, 26 Jun 2015, Brad Beyenhof wrote: >> At least car manufacturers are held to standards, and not anybody can just >> fashion their own chassis in their backyard. But that's what's being done in >> software every day. > > actually they can. If they try to sell them they have to go through crash > tests, etc. but you can build a vehicle from racks of steel, and as long as > the result meets the requirements (which are much less detailed than you > would think) you can register the result to run on the road.
Well, sure, but what I meant to say was that it's not the general and standard practice. Entry into the vehicle market is at least limited by access to manufacturing equipment of some kind. Getting into software requires a <$400 Dell laptop and a book titled "SAMS: Teach Yourself PHP in 24 Hours" or somesuch. The resulting output is inevitably more varied & harder to manage. - Brad _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
