When I'm > working on a commercial > product though, I'll never go out of my way to > expose myself to additional > somebody else's bugs in order to fix them. I just > can't afford that big a > potential hit in my personal productivity, whatever > the advantages to > society at large. > >
You cannot be serious. Cmon, are you saying that dealing with blackboxed product bug helps your personal productivity?! Common good is a worthy purpose, but even on very pragmatic, personal and immediate level it is highly rewarding to be able to dive into somebody elses code and fix bugs here and there. - if you fixed the bug you just gained productivity; - went through that project code and did not throw up you just gained confidence in the project and gained productivity again by becoming familiar with internals of the tool/library whatever; Of course there is certain threshold where original developers of the project must do changes, but dismissing even idea of diving into project source seems gross. Konstantin Ignatyev PS: If this is a typical day on planet earth, humans will add fifteen million tons of carbon to the atmosphere, destroy 115 square miles of tropical rainforest, create seventy-two miles of desert, eliminate between forty to one hundred species, erode seventy-one million tons of topsoil, add 2,700 tons of CFCs to the stratosphere, and increase their population by 263,000 Bowers, C.A. The Culture of Denial: Why the Environmental Movement Needs a Strategy for Reforming Universities and Public Schools. New York: State University of New York Press, 1997: (4) (5) (p.206) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
