[lbo-talk] PTECH, 9/11, and USA-SAUDI TERROR

Jordan Hayes jmhayes at j-o-r-d-a-n.com
Sat Jan 22 10:59:21 PST 2005


Doug Henwood writes:


> What is so hot about a single piece of software?

I think a big part of it is: it works!


> There must be thousands, scores of thousands, of programmers
> who could whip up the equivalent. It's not the holy fucking
> grail, for heaven's sake.

I know that the popular conception is of thousands of programmers whipping up millions of lines of code that does useful things. But the reality is far closer to this:

http://news.google.com/news?q=fbi+software



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