[lug] can't make this stuff up, folks...

Nate Duehr nate at natetech.com
Mon Oct 19 13:10:52 MDT 2009


The "not invented here" mentality usually stems from not having "one
throat to choke" if something goes wrong.

Very prevalent in the Dilbert-esque corporate world, from my experience.
 Not a problem at all at small startups where it's fiscally impossible
to hire enough people to write everything in-house.

To get Corporations "happy" with open-source projects, they either need
3rd party testing they can point at to "blame" when something goes
wrong, or they build up massive "QA" departments to blame... 

That's what I find funny.  If we're going through all this trouble at
all companies, why not build relationships with Educational institutions
and get real "Building Codes" going as requirements...?  Because
business people still think coders are a "dime a dozen", but then find
they can't find the REALLY GOOD ones... funny, isn't it? :-)

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  Nate Duehr
  nate at natetech.com



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