[luau] NEWS: Open Source makes programmers dumb

[Jimen Ching]

On Mon, 27 May 2002, Lockhart, Charles wrote:
>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
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>actually developing it.
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This is very true.  Of course, this does not imply that all open-source
developers are qualified software engineers.  Though most open-source
developers are not the "C for dummies" guys, it is hard to tell after
reading some of their source code.

When you are holding your hand out, you can't be very picky.  ;-)

--jc
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