Jim Pellegrini

An organization, sooner or later, ships its org chart as its product (Conway’s law); the Windows organization was no different. Open source doesn’t have that problem.

…tions are a distraction and a drag on existing resources. (The best description I’ve heard is that, “Unfettered innovation is a denial of service attack on core capabilities.”) That’s because until now, we hadn’t levied any requirements, rigor or evidence on the innovator to…

… and create memes to ridicule them (note: I’m omitting links to specific examples here on purpose). We are not the community-driven individuals that we make ourselves out to be; we are a group of over-worked, over-looked, and under-appreciated individuals that desire attention. We have resorted to vindictive schadenfreude to justify our own expedient ends.