Linus Torvalds is a busy guy.  Not content with pushing badge-name Unix vendors into the land of the legacy system, and creating an operating system that’s nigh on won the server market (It’s not looking too shabby on mobile and embedded systems, either), he somehow managed to find the time to revolutionise source code management as well.  Anyone who’s jumped straight between Subversion* and git will know quite how radical a change it is.  But the reason I love it is that it’s fundamentally changed the mindset of open source software. You see, although open source projects were meant...

Just read this.  Couldn't agree more.  Quite a few of the Alt.NET groupings have an explicit bias in favour of people who submit patches.  Now these people are, for the most part, giving away radically great stuff for free.  Expecting something in return isn't unreasonable.  However, without focus on people starting on the curve, or even halfway through, My own curve is far from "at Z".  I "get" why persistence ignorance is important, but work on a lot of old sproc code.  I use dependency injection, but haven't mastered it.  I implement separation of concerns, but I wouldn't claim...