[clue-talk] Acronym of the day: CADT

[David Rudder]

I've always thought JWZ to be a bit over the top.  CADT, for example.  
He paints all of FOSS with the same brush. But, there are plenty of 
counter examples.  Linux, Apache, PostgreSQL, Nagios.  Even ones where 
there are long-outstanding bugs, like GNU C++, the number and severity 
are less than their commercial counterparts.  Heck, compare Gnome (the 
project he was ranting about in this article).  I'd argue it's bug-fix 
rate is higher than either Windows or Mac, and has as few rewrites from 
scratch.

Funny that he's been the curmudgeon of FOSS since the mid 1990's, yet he 
obviously uses Gnome.  And has for years. 

-Dave

Matt Gushee wrote:

>This is not new, but it was new to me, and maybe to some of you. It came
>up on the Tokyo LUG list, so I tracked it down on the Web:
>
>  http://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html
>
>Well, I found it amusing.
>
>For those who haven't heard of this guy, Jamie Zawinski (sometimes known
>by his initials JWZ) was the lead developer of (pre-Mozilla) Netscape
>Mail/News, and before that one of the principal developers of XEmacs.
>Later he played a leading role in the open-sourcing of Netscape, but
>later quit in a huff around the time Netscape was sold to AOL. He's also
>long been skeptical about the merits of open source development in
>general, but given his large technical contributions, I guess he's got a
>right to complain.
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