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Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
From: g...@jpl.nasa.gov (Erann Gat)
Date: 1999/08/30
Subject: Re: source access vs dynamism
In article <3144703658674...@naggum.no>, Erik Naggum <e...@naggum.no> wrote: I don't know what planet you're living on, but here on Earth the people who > let me put it this way: I dread the situation where software is written > by people who are satisfied with name recognition and status among their > peers -- we'll just get MS-DOS all over again. brought us MS-DOS were definitely not content with mere name recognition and status among their peers. In fact, it would be hard to find a better example of a product of the profit motive than MS-DOS and its progeny. MS-DOS is the perfect example of what you get from people who care about money more than they care about status. Microsoft got where it is precisely because Bill Gates is the good businessman you wish other computer scientists would be. It's not that Bill doesn't *care* about status; he cares very deeply. It rankles Bill severely that people think Microsoft isn't innovative. But Bill cares about money more, so he puts his energy into being a good (if not necessarily ethical) businessman. The result, predictably, is poor software. It's predictable because the profit motive is fundamentally at odds with Erann Gat You must Sign in before you can post messages.
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