They lure you into a world of "anything's possible!" when in fact it's not and never was. Hard choices are inescapable.
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Replying to @slightlylate @briankardell
And it's not a moral failing on the part of the developers who chose convenience when sold a lie.
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all it takes tho is 1 to sell that, show they can deliver something & then we're talking biz, not devs, making this worse. Tough to combat
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Replying to @briankardell
Yep. The other biz-side reason I get is that "we won't be able to hire anyone if we don't rewrite in X!".
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Replying to @slightlylate @briankardell
This is, of course, a convenient lie (people work for lots of things, including money, which businesses tend to have).
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I agree, but I am the choir. Teach me how to change that.pic.twitter.com/SH9J7mJ6ed
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Most often I find that business folks crave independent verification for technical decisions, preferably from a plausible authority.
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Replying to @slightlylate @briankardell
Also, traditional businesses tend to follow tech herds; this is both a cost and a benefit.
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People didn't get fired for buying IBM/MSFT because the other side of that transaction valued their business stability.
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With OSS, the deal changed but the purchasing decisions didn't get better. We didn't level-up our managers to cope.
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OSS means _owning_ the thing you adopt, even more than custom stuff built on proprietary stacks did.
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