A lot of celebrated software began as a guy in a room, and later was adopted by others because they thought it could solve their problems. The software never would have existed in the first place were it not for the lone person in the room.
If software is constrained to resemble the communication structure of the organization that produced it, well then programmer politics are _boring_, while an individual's mind is _novel_.
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If software is constrained to resemble the communication structure of the organization that produced it, well then programmer politics are _boring_, while an individual's mind is _novel_.