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November 29, 2005
Making a healthy cookie takes more than lots of eyeballs
Malcolm Gladwell, fun and fast reading author of The Tipping Point, and Blink, has substantive, insightful criticism of the open source movement, learned from baking tasty but healthy cookies.
Because there are so many individual voices involved in an open-source project, no one can agree on the right way to do things. And, because no one can agree, every possible option is built into the software, thereby frustrating the central goal of good design, which is, after all, to understand what to leave out.
Posted by OneEyedMan at November 29, 2005 11:06 AM
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