Poul-Henning Kamp: A Generation Lost in the Bazaar – Quality happens only when someone is responsible for it.

“The bazaar meme advocated by Raymond, ‘Just hack it,’ as opposed to the carefully designed cathedrals of the pre-dot-com years, unfortunately did, not die with the dot-com madness, and today Unix is rapidly sinking under its weight.”

Rebuttal in the comments: “Engineers like to think that the world could be designed, however Nature shows the opposite. Any sufficiently complex system cannot be built out of design, it has to be evolved. Evolution is messy (anarchic?): pieces that work get reused, pieces that do not are lost.”

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