To be fair, I discovered this article today, and I read it with passion.
Because, even though I'm 43yo, I'm too young to have worked professionally with other OSes than Windows and Linux. And it's super interesting for me to discover that astronomers had software solutions which were discarded and when they tried to protect what they had, they faced the "priesthood" mindset that is so well described in this article.
I'm not trying to troll, but I feel that this priesthood mindset is exactly the same as the one used when people destroy anyone who dares to criticize git. I think this quote from Douglas Adams and from that article fits perfectly: "their fundamental design flaws are completely hidden by their superficial design flaws".
To be fair, I discovered this article today, and I read it with passion.
Because, even though I'm 43yo, I'm too young to have worked professionally with other OSes than Windows and Linux. And it's super interesting for me to discover that astronomers had software solutions which were discarded and when they tried to protect what they had, they faced the "priesthood" mindset that is so well described in this article.
I'm not trying to troll, but I feel that this priesthood mindset is exactly the same as the one used when people destroy anyone who dares to criticize git. I think this quote from Douglas Adams and from that article fits perfectly: "their fundamental design flaws are completely hidden by their superficial design flaws".