Just testing, sent an OT earlier but it seems not to have made it through. Anyway, if this makes it thru to the list, @Frankline its not about recognition etc. :-) However, from an engineering perspective or other professional fields, its seems that the developer area is quite unique. Its seems that before people become engineers they are already talking about the financials or the money making parts. I think what we maybe lacking are developer engineers, not developer enterprenuers. Thats the big difference and and probably explains why any areas of developing large scale systems is lacking. Me thots. Rgds. :-) On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 11:47 PM, Frankline Chitwa <frank.chitwa@gmail.com>wrote:
Aki, neither closed nor open source is the problem.the only thing that can kill real developers is software patents. Otherwise as long as there is compilers and script machines, people will always code, whether open or closed source. Accusing one side of this balance simply doesnt cut it with opinions aki. Give us facts.
on the other hand. How low can you go in search of recognition? If using cms equals a lame developer, instead of just developing a cms, Why not start off by developing the programming language, then the cms. Oh wait, develop the an OS first then develop the language then the cms on top? Better yet, why not start with the hardware then dev the OS then language then the cms? I mean that would surely be hardcore!!
i hope i have made my point which is, it all depends on what you want to achieve and the scarce resources available to you. Dont expect seasoned devs to develop a cms when the populace has not exhausted the current available capability.
a personal cms may show you are hardcore, or it may show that you simply cannot integrate other peoples better developed free tools in your work, i.e you are a lame developer. Because all developers use other developers' work