Zed Shaw: Why I (A/L)GPL

Re:Zed Shaw: Why I (A/L)GPL by lsc on Tuesday July 14, 2009 @01:36AM (#703164)

SysAdmins care primarily about infrastructure; webapp programmers, well, you have a point. I mean, the top two stories of this moment are clearly infrastructure. But they care about other things, too. SysAdmins exist so that developers don't need to focus on infrastructure.

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Re:Zed Shaw: Why I (A/L)GPL by wvenable on Tuesday July 14, 2009 @02:51AM (#703234)

I include things like programming languages and libraries as infrastructure too.

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Re:Zed Shaw: Why I (A/L)GPL by gthank on Tuesday July 14, 2009 @05:19AM (#703351)

Any webapp programmer worth knowing cares a lot about infrastructure. We might not be in charge of day-to-day operations, but we know it deeply shapes the end-user experience, and end-user experience is our whole raison d'être, whether that end-user is another programmer, a paid client, or somebody else.

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Re:Zed Shaw: Why I (A/L)GPL by lsc on Tuesday July 14, 2009 @05:50AM (#703379)

sure, you care about it, but it's not what you do. Just like as a Unix SysAdmin, I care very deeply about power. Without good power, nothing I can do means jack. However, I know less about it than an electrician would, and (going back to Zed's comment) I wouldn't be able to name the people/companies who are famous for coming up with the high power switching technology required to keep my data center on-line.

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