[snickerbockers]

reminds me of when i had a job working on a company that had its own OS (which was an extremely outdated proprietary FreeBSD fork) and we spent more time arguing about who's fault everything was than solving problem. I used to love low-level programming until I realized that in the corporate world (i assume/hope this does not apply to open-source communities) the people who get ahead are the people who can master the art of jettisoning responsibility so that they're always the guy who just implemented the hot new feature and management thinks the people who actually have to make this stuff work are all incompetent and lazy because it takes 2-4 weeks to untangle all the heap corruption and race condition bugs and ultimately come up with a meager 10-line patch to prevent the kernel panic.