| > responsible for their own infrastructure So you'd suggest we go back to the Ma-Bell model where you couldn't plug anything into the phone network yourself? Or do you like being responsible for your own phone and modem? While it was a clever hack, the acoustic coupler should never have been necessary. > but it requires that every individual community No, it only requires enough communities have such experts such that a "herd immunity" is established. > I see no actual rebuttals Your decision to totally ignore my point about these groups having a high degree of overlap is noted. The assumption that "expertise" only happens with "commercial" (or government) was disproved a long time ago. > modular and reusable software "standard parts" isn't really about modular programming - I mean stuff like: Apache, glibc, zlib, etc. Really, I'm just sketching out what is done every day to meet the mundane needs of "business software". A typical business generally doesn't need someone to invent a new data storage technique - they just need someone to make the necessary tables in postgres/oracle/whatever and the necessary forms/report-generators. These needs never go away, and are the kind of task that benefits greatly from having a collection of commonly-used tools to draw from. |