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A discussion with Keith PackardA discussion with Keith PackardPosted Apr 3, 2003 17:20 UTC (Thu) by Baylink (subscriber, #755)Parent article: A discussion with Keith Packard For what it's worth -- and I've been active on the net since about 1984 -- I thought this was a very good interview, and it doesn't seem at all to paint Keith as a whack-job, as some people are suggesting. I especially liked "a success catastrophe"; I think that's a delightful capsulization of a fairly common problem -- and as long as X has been around, I believe he's right: it hasn't reached the tipping point climbing it's popularity curve yet.. at least, not on a *consumer* scale. For all that we like to rave about Micro$oft, it's well to remember that there are over *100 million* copies of various Windows based OSen out there -- it's not *quite* as bad as we give it credit for. Will X scale to 100 million copies? Not if the development process is what he says it is. There's a common error that's made in management, and makes itself in projects like this: assuming that someone who is good at X will be good at *managing* X. This is rarely true; management is a different skillset almost entirely. In most cases, it's just the joy of X that makes people do it; this doesn't transfer well to management tasks. But who knows; I could be wrong; maybe it's just me.
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