The Case of the Self-Centered Date Parser. “Google I/O: Once upon a time, there was an open source project called Subversion, and it needed a new date parser.
One day, a coder came along and wrote one. But he insisted on tagging the source code with his John Hancock. And that was against the rules. Subversion’s founders said that name tags would undermine collaboration ….”
Link: The Register
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