My Dad and Grandfather had lots of expressions and I’m indebted to them. They were the koans of my youth. One of them came to play again today after speaking with a colleague about some of our peers and whether they could master a simple operation. Gramps used to say, “some people are so dumb that they couldn’t pour piss out of a boot with the instructions printed on the heel.” That sums up what I was thinking about some of these folks today. Some folks really are dumb and some are “dumb like a fox”, another sage simile.
Thoughts on the world of open source