• invertedspear@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    I’ve been in software for more than 20 years now. I’ve done some pretty innovative things from time to time. There is nothing I have ever done or seen in any proprietary code base at any company I’ve ever worked at that isn’t at every other company. The only unique thing at any company is how all the puzzle pieces get connected. It’s pure ego to think that any idea you have in that now open source project is unique or what’s giving you any competitive advantage in your other projects.

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      2 months ago

      If there’s nothing unique or special in any company’s code base, then why does SAP software suck so much more than anything else?

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        2 months ago

        Definitely not supporting their quality, but a ton of the wtf designs are because of legacy customers paying millions to have it.