Flutterby™! : Linus: Good software evolves

Okay, it's nothing that people who've been developing software for long enough haven't started to puzzle out for themselves, but sometimes we need someone who can articulate some of the lessons of tens of millions of keystrokes and years of struggling through product ships to tell us that maybe the way we've ended up developing software isn't a bad thing. Linus Torvalds talks about why he believes good software evolves. Well worth a skim, especially if you, say, are working on a project where the lead has been adamant about getting the design right, and somehow the tasks that have lead to actual implementation have all been skunk-works side projects which are what actually get put into production because of budget and time constraints. [cough]