In the spring of 1995, Sun Microsystems announced Java, which claimed to solve this dilemma.
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The goal was clear: wouldn't it be great if you could just move applications between different operating environments without worrying about the software breaking because of a different operating system, windowing environment, or internal data representation? Portability became even more important as the Internet grew.
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But they only solved part of the problem and didn't provide any help with the PC world. In the UNIX world, standards like POSIX and X made it easier to move applications between different UNIX platforms. Getting an application to work was only part of the problem you also had to port it to all the platforms you supported, which often took more time than the development effort itself. All worker cooperatives have two common characteristics: 1) member-owners invest in and own the business together, and share the enterprise’s profits, and 2) decision-making is democratic, with each member having one vote.For years, programmers have had to go through the hassles of porting software from BSD-based UNIX to System V Release 4-based UNIX, from OpenWindows to Motif, from PC to UNIX to Macintosh (or some combination thereof), and between various other alternatives, too numerous to mention. > Worker-owned cooperatives are business enterprises that are owned and governed by their employees. One interesting alternative are tech coops : Perhaps this is the most efficient type of an organization for a large software maker. Google was started by a bunch of developers and it looks like a traditional corporation now with layers and layers of middle management. It's hard to disagree there, purely from a historical perspective. > Similarly, law firms are organized very differently from tech companies and it's a function of their products / markets / business models / stakeholders / general situations. From my lay understanding the business is still organized around "a lawyer" being the top of the food chain. If I understand you correctly, you're saying that lawyers are primarily solitary and software projects require a team? Do I have that right? Law firms still have a hierarchy: there are senior partners, junior partners, articling students, etc. so I'd be very careful about the law firm analogy. Similarly, law firms are organized very differently from tech companies and it's a function of their products / markets / business models / stakeholders / general situations. Social behaviour among game animals fundamentally differs from social behaviour among pack hunters and it's all a function of the ecological niche they inhabit. So competition for rank is to them a matter of survival. (If the group of predators is too small given the size of their chosen prey, then predators themselves might easily suffer injury). They can starve to death in a large successful pack, or start taking on risks by going it alone or in packs that are too small. In case of food shortages, animals lower down the pecking order are in a difficult situation. When the buffalo is down, there's a pecking order determining who gets to eat first. It takes a coordinated effort by a group of lions.
Tech companies that do agency work for non-tech clients may or may not be a little bit like that.īut most tech companies are in a situation more comparable to pack hunters. In law firms, a client is generally handled by at most one partner, and there are enough clients to go around to keep all partners busy while allowing them to work fairly independently. You burn more calories than the grass is worth. Even if there isn't enough grass, fighting over grass is not energetically efficient. One zebra just moves over by a few meters.
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Two zebras have no need to compete over eating from the same patch of grass. Law firms are a way of organizing game animals.
While I agree with their critique of the status quo, I don't think their alternative approach works for software engineering in settings other than agency work for non-tech clients.
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