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On 2014-01-03 09:43:11 +1300 (+1300), Robert Collins wrote:
> I disagree here - educational institutions have followed the trend,
> not set it. Likewise corporate management. The trend setting occured
> IMNSHO through organisations like Novell and Microsoft disrupting the
> computing marketplace through their products {itself neither good or
> bad} but what was bad was their choice to not ship the source code
[...]

Agreed, this is very likely the reason behind the reason. In some
ways, another form of Stockholm Syndrome.

> I think that mischaracterises devops :). One of the crucial
> sea-changes that has occurred in the intervening period between early
> Unix administration and now is the broad acceptance of untested code
> as unprofessional, broken, bad.
[...]

Probably thanks to my changing jobs around the time the modern
devops movement began to gain in popularity, I hadn't associated
test-centric development culture with it. I can definitely see the
relationship though, and so concur it's a positive outcome (and not
merely a throwback to "the beforetime").
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Jeremy Stanley