A Generation Lost in the Bazaar - Poul-Henning Kamp article

[Jamon Camisso]

I have tremendous respect and admiration for Poul-Henning Kamp, and his
most recent article in the ACM queue has only bolstered it.

He discusses some of the failings of the Bazaar software development
model championed by the likes of Eric Raymond. Given his background and
his lifelong involvement with free software like FreeBSD and Varnish, I
think much of what he has to say rings true.

For example, he shows an autoconf macro and then explains: "That is the
sorry reality of the bazaar Raymond praised in his book: a pile of old
festering hacks, endlessly copied and pasted by a clueless generation of
IT "professionals" who wouldn't recognize sound IT architecture if you
hit them over the head with it."

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2349257

Worth a read.

Jamon
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