Comments on: Software Theology http://www.opensourceconnections.com/2009/07/18/software-theology/ Automating the Science to Enable the Art Fri, 03 Sep 2010 21:15:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Seminary http://www.opensourceconnections.com/2009/07/18/software-theology/comment-page-1/#comment-14347 Seminary Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:26:48 +0000 http://www.opensourceconnections.com/?p=443#comment-14347 Software Theology, that's very clever. I'm an I.T graduate and the software commandments are like the I.T laws created..lol .. I hope there would be a <a href="http://www.rts.edu/" rel="nofollow">seminary</a> for software theology. Software Theology, that's very clever. I'm an I.T graduate and the software commandments are like the I.T laws created..lol .. I hope there would be a seminary for software theology.

]]> By: Ryan Svihla http://www.opensourceconnections.com/2009/07/18/software-theology/comment-page-1/#comment-14128 Ryan Svihla Sun, 02 Aug 2009 14:34:56 +0000 http://www.opensourceconnections.com/?p=443#comment-14128 I completely agree with a big chunk of what you say with a couple of caveats. I myself have posted about the "sports team" mentality that people get with their software, and damage it does. Ideally we should be rational in choosing our software to be "what works best", but human nature does seem to be driven towards making software choice a personal thing where we have to "cheer" for it. Finally my caveats are as follows: 1) Unbearable zealots in every sector of software, singling out Apple fans for their zealotry seems arbitrary and is likely based on some personal experience(s). 2) That free software point is a very tired one I hear bandied about. I believe you know better yourself (as you mention "the converse"), but I find it a bit of a fake topic. The primary benefit I find is in "I can fix this or figure out what this does". Having supported/developed around a good number of very lousy 3rd party "enterprise" solutions our biggest problem is the blackbox nature of things. I completely agree with a big chunk of what you say with a couple of caveats.

I myself have posted about the “sports team” mentality that people get with their software, and damage it does. Ideally we should be rational in choosing our software to be “what works best”, but human nature does seem to be driven towards making software choice a personal thing where we have to “cheer” for it.

Finally my caveats are as follows:

1) Unbearable zealots in every sector of software, singling out Apple fans for their zealotry seems arbitrary and is likely based on some personal experience(s).

2) That free software point is a very tired one I hear bandied about. I believe you know better yourself (as you mention “the converse”), but I find it a bit of a fake topic. The primary benefit I find is in “I can fix this or figure out what this does”.

Having supported/developed around a good number of very lousy 3rd party “enterprise” solutions our biggest problem is the blackbox nature of things.

]]> By: Clint http://www.opensourceconnections.com/2009/07/18/software-theology/comment-page-1/#comment-14104 Clint Sun, 19 Jul 2009 20:05:15 +0000 http://www.opensourceconnections.com/?p=443#comment-14104 I'm a translator who has done some dabbling in compling-type stuff and it's interesting to read your article and see that these types of my-way-is-better-your-way statements are almost completely unfounded. I saw it working with computer languages and I see it now working with human languages. Some people just can't fathom the idea that there might be a differing viewpoint. I’m a translator who has done some dabbling in compling-type stuff and it’s interesting to read your article and see that these types of my-way-is-better-your-way statements are almost completely unfounded. I saw it working with computer languages and I see it now working with human languages. Some people just can’t fathom the idea that there might be a differing viewpoint.

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