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  • "I was in the war, you know. Gunner in the air force. I shot down 27 enemy planes, but do they call me ‘Richard Gunner’? No…

    "After the war I went into construction. Give some wood and nails, and I’ll build you the nicest of houses! But do they call me ‘Richard Carpenter’? No…

    "Then I went into politics. Spent my time speaking truth to power, ruffled some feathers, and was well-liked, but do they call me 'Honest Richard? No…

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  • What’s funny to me is, the agile approach seems like it’s a much better fit for open-source, non-commercial software development.

    The corporate world and is management practices based around quarters and deadlines can’t seem to see how anything could get done without deadlines, but that’s usually less of a factor with open-source. People laugh at “scrum masters” because in a corporate environment, all the scrum stuff tends to be mostly performative. But it seems to me that open-source projects with multiple contributors already kind of work in an agile manner.