[SLL] faking Unix knowledge? pretend to know open source Unix?

[Chuck Wolber]

On Thu, 15 Jan 2009, Jesse Keating wrote:

> On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 10:37 -0800, Dave Dennis wrote:
> > More like Write Once and shove your problem off on the operations 
> > team.
> 
> I think that accurately describes the situation.

No. This is a common logical falacy. Just because something was done 
badly, it does not mean you throw out the baby with the bathwater.

You have to prove that WORA in and of itself is a bad idea. It is not 
reasonable to assume that since you have seen it done badly 100% of the 
time that the idea of WORA is then a bad idea unless you can say that the 
reason it was done badly 100% of the time is because WORA itself is 
flawed. To do that, you have to articulate why WORA itself is flawed in 
the absence of developer's ham-handed attempts to implement it.

In other words, it is not enough to say an idea is flawed because "I have 
never seen it succeed"... At best, "I have never seen it succeed" means 
you suspect there may be something wrong, but you cannot nail it down to 
whether it is a conceptual problem or an implementation problem.

..Ch:W..

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