[luau] NEWS: Open Source makes programmers dumb

[Lockhart, Charles]

Actually, I kinda thought that maybe this was just a joke, at best it's just
some dumb-ass being a hypocrite.  I mean, read the article, then read the
article that he sourced from.  Somebody actually wrote a real article on a
subject, then this second dude reads that article, and without actually
understanding it, does a cut-n-paste from the primary article and puts his
own bs spin on it.  It's something I remember doing in like the 10th grade
about 15 years ago.  If this guy is 15, then I say hey, well written.
Otherwise, maybe he should do his own work.

The primary article wasn't about open-source.  It was about the lack of
qualified people on the market.  And it was referring to the self taught
guys:

"We're not talking about graduates, but people who have appropriate
qualifications and industry experience - often several years with one or two
very well-known organisations."

And in that reference, they're right.  There are a tremendous number of
unqualified "technical people" without an appropriate educational
background.  I have a lot of friends like this.  Some are just so plainly
excellent that in my opinion they've gone far beyond what they would have
learned while working for a degree.  Others, well, I don't say it to them,
but they're just not qualified.  They were worked their way up to becoming
system admin people, read a book (something like "C for Dummies"), got to
the level where they can download some open-source and get it to compile,
then started applying for programmer and software engineering positions.
They make up the 498 people who aren't qualified.  And while they are the
guys who download and run the open-source, they aren't the guys who are
actually developing it.

This dude who wrote the anti-open-source article is trolling.  He should
just be ignored.

-Charles