"This infuriates me. This cool thing they spent six months
(six!) writing is called Subversion, and it had a 1.0.0 release
three years ago. Subversion had its first beta in late 2003, so the
Codeplex folks are waaay behind the state of the art on this
one.
"As a whole, I think the state of software is abysmal. The only
way to make it better is to stop writing new code. New code is
always full of bugs, and its an expensive path to get from blank
screen to stable program. We need to treat programming more like
math, we need to build on our results. Development tools is a
special market, as our needs are all very similar, and when we need
a tool, we have the skills to make it..."