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

Andrej Marjan andrej-igvx78u1SeH3fQ9qLvQP4Q at public.gmane.org
Tue Aug 21 15:38:19 UTC 2012


https://lwn.net/Articles/512422/On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 10:33 AM, Jamon
Camisso <jamon.camisso-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> 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
>

Commentary (including criticisms and rebuttals) on LWN is also worth a
read: https://lwn.net/Articles/512422/
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