I have to say that as far as I can tell, the company I work for doesn't give a monkey's what I program in, as long as it works. It has about 500 people.
On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Carl Jokl <carl.j...@gmail.com> wrote: > Firstly, I am fine with Pizza. > > I haven't observed an organisation of any given size which has given > the programmers total freedom. I think it would be interesting to see > how that would go. > > I think that it can be part of human nature that if someone > demonstrates great trust in you then you would tend not to want to let > them down or mess up. > > There is the philosophical argument that people can end up becoming > what they are treated as being i.e. if they are always treated as not > being able to be trusted would that affect the way that they develop? > > On Oct 5, 1:12 pm, Kevin Wright <kev.lee.wri...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Actually... I may have answered my own question in the OP. >> >> Most organisations already have a process for choosing what libraries they >> use (e.g. SpringMVC vs Struts or GWT) >> >> What if the choice of language was on completely equal footing here? So >> whatever power developers have to influence and suggest the adoption of a >> library, they should be granted *exactly* the same means to influence the >> choice of language. As a rule-of-thumb it feels like it should adapt well >> to many firms. >> >> Could it possibly be that simple? >> >> -- >> Kevin Wright >> >> mail / gtalk / msn : kev.lee.wri...@gmail.com >> pulse / skype: kev.lee.wright >> twitter: @thecoda > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
