Dave Beckett

Camels and Rubber Duckies by Joel Spolsky

2004-12-16 10:29

Camels and Rubber Duckies (Joel on Software) by Joel Spolsky. On pricing software.

I have just finished reading his book Joel on Software and have now been sucked into reading his articles. The book is quite irritating in many places but he's such a good writer with lots of Opinions (yeah yeah) and has occasional insights that it's worth reading. Especially when explaining the world of commercial software development. His thoughts on open source development don't ring so true, mostly I think because he has no deep background in open source work.

ObJoel Style:

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