@bsdphk For me, open sourcing started with „here is what I did over the weekend, do what you want with it“. Now we have „civilization will end on several planets if you screw this up“ foss projects.

This is no way to run a civilization.

@bsdphk I would argue that knowing how much torque to put in or even where the bolt have to go is... a process that can only be done after already having built the project, multiple times.

There is a reason any big engineering project (yes even road and bridges) build a lot of simulations and prototypes and even to scale models.

In software, we have a chance that we can *change the product itself* once it is running for no more cost. As an engineer in any other field, I would kill for that ability, as it would makes the iterative process of designing far faster and efficient.

Said otherwise... doing it the way we do in software is more advanced and "good" engineering than doing it "in the real world".

This is ofc only one lens to look at it, but it does have some support. It is just one map to look at things, maps are not the territory.

@Di4na
It is now 50 years since Frederick P. Brooks wrote a book where he told everybody in IT to always build a prototype and to always throw it away...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Myth…

book on software engineering and project management by Fred Brooks

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