His whole rant is because he didn't get famous for writing Mongrel. In fact, I (and just about everyone else) never heard of him before he called Rails a ghetto.
Yeh, it is kinda sad really. A good engineer/software developer's job is to make things work, simplify them, and get out of the way. It is creative but you also painfully remove yourself from style in the software (other than simpicity, minimalism etc).
If you have a creative side sometimes you need to let it out other ways. The backend is very forgetting.
Zed is right, noone really does care who wrote it, they just want it and want it to work.
While I can understand saints who just contribute, I grok the argument that the author makes regarding making his latest package GPL instead of BSD-licensed if that will help him get acknowledgement and/or get paid.
Sure an software engineer can be like an artist, but preferably not a starving one.
His whole rant is because he didn't get famous for writing Mongrel. In fact, I (and just about everyone else) never heard of him before he called Rails a ghetto.
And yes, I also find him very predictable.