[Elecraft] Elecraft Digest, Vol 124, Issue 11

[David Anderson]

You must have seen this Dilbert cartoon Fred!

http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2014-08-12/

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David Anderson GM4JJJ 

> On 19 Aug 2014, at 20:57, Fred Jensen <k6dgw at foothill.net> wrote:
> 
> Leaving the military in 1972, I supported my family in control system, communications, and software engineering, mainly for the military.  In due time I started leading more than one project at a time.  Since the open-source discussion came up on the list, I've combed my memory of all those projects past.  So far, I cannot come up with a single programmer [later "software engineer"] who, at least once, did *not* come to me and say, "The code's a mess, best thing to do is rewrite all of it."
> 
> I'll let everyone know if I remember one. :-))
> 
> 73,
> 
> Fred K6DGW
> - Northern California Contest Club
> - CU in the 2014 Cal QSO Party 4-5 Oct 2014
> - www.cqp.org
> 
>> On 8/19/2014 1:02 AM, Andrew White wrote:
>> 
>> With enough eye balls looking at the code all bugs are shallow. I think
>> Elecraft could benefit from an extra 100 pair of eyes looking at the
>> problems at no cost contributing an average of 100 hours a week at it.
>> Could you imagine what kind of quagmire that could result in? A better
>> product no less!
> 
> 
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