Software Creators Create Their Own Problems (Vimeo)

[Paul Keith]

Video: http://vimeo.com/2624186

Source page: http://www.rebootrethink.com/index2.php

P.S. Haven't read the book.

Blog page: http://davidlongstreet.wordpress.com/

Coincidentally, latest blog post:



Posted the image because ironically that's how the video sounded to me. It seems more like marketing 101 than anything else.

[housetier]

I wonder why agile means "no more documentation"?

[wraith808]

I wonder why agile means "no more documentation"?

http://agilemanifesto.org/

Of course it doesn't mean *exactly* that, but isn't that where humor comes from?  The over-exaggeration of a concept?

[housetier]

wraith808, you are right of course

Also there are different kind of documentation used or demanded in software development; some of those are useless IMHO, so I applaud "the agile method" for trying to dispose of them.

[40hz]

wraith808, you are right of course

Also there are different kind of documentation used or demanded in software development; some of those are useless IMHO, so I applaud "the agile method" for trying to dispose of them.

Assuming they can get away with it. 

One of the biggest criticisms of FOSS development is its general lack of comprehensive documentation. 

[Renegade]

wraith808, you are right of course

Also there are different kind of documentation used or demanded in software development; some of those are useless IMHO, so I applaud "the agile method" for trying to dispose of them.

Assuming they can get away with it. 

One of the biggest criticisms of FOSS development is its general lack of comprehensive documentation. 

There's FOSS with documentation?!?! 

[40hz]

wraith808, you are right of course

Also there are different kind of documentation used or demanded in software development; some of those are useless IMHO, so I applaud "the agile method" for trying to dispose of them.

Assuming they can get away with it. 

One of the biggest criticisms of FOSS development is its general lack of comprehensive documentation. 

There's FOSS with documentation?!?! 

Yeah. But it's usually considered a glitch when that happens. 

[Renegade]

There's FOSS with documentation?!?! 

Yeah. But it's usually considered a glitch when that happens. 

Hmmm... Just thinking... I've heard of people packaging up FOSS (GPL) then selling it. According to what I know about the GPL, content isn't GPL, so documentation wouldn't be GPL'd.

Just a random thought.

[housetier]

I think the GPL applies to a WORK, whatever that is.

And if the GPL doesn't apply, in most countries copyright law will apply which usually grants even less rights than GPL would.