[luau] NEWS: Open Source makes programmers dumb

[Joe Linux]

One guy who's rather impressive is Deven Phillips.  I was amazed when he 
told me he was self taught.

Lockhart, Charles wrote:

>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
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