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1. Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 07-Mar-2022 17:34:13 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅
   I thought it might have been Eric S Raymond who first called managing open source developer communities as hard as herding cats, but it turns out Andrew Tanenbaum had insight enough (while still being mostly wrong 😇) to say it years before we knew for sure how massively networked software development would actually pan out, in 1992 just after the famous microkernel vs monolith kernel flamewar:
   
   www.h-online.com/open/features…
   • Thomas (tfb@functional.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Mar-2022 00:08:25 UTC Thomas

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     @clacke Some thoughts:

     * I was once on a mailing list called tanenbaum-cats

     * I think his statement was true in 1992. That it was maybe no longer so in 2002 is another matter

     * Raymond would have said something about shooting cats 🤣

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