Let Joe Average Help You Code

ploose writes "Apache co-founder and CollabNet CTO Brian Behlendorf says that programming should be opened out to non-developers. Bring them into a development community with proper feedback forums and bad code will get flamed anyway, so it doesn't matter what they write. From the interview: 'Mashups are really Excel macros 2.0 - with the rise of Web services, the more vehicles that are out there that expose data through programmable APIs, with Office 12.0 and Firefox with AJAX, the more people you'll see create applications. The line between hardcore developers and the average Joe will start to get very fuzzy.'"

Open Source , flame based development?

[HeavyMS]

"bad code will get flamed anyway"

Everyone is welcome to join in hand help but if you do not live upp to our standards we will flame you forever! and call you a turd.

Duke Nukem?

[nmccart]

So, with 1000 open source programmes working at 1000 dummy stations, they should be able to produce Duke Nukem 3D?

Fantasy.

[torokun]

99% of users don't even want to open the help. This guy's smoking some collaborative utopia crack.

An excellent idea!

[GungaDan]

Maybe we should let Joe Average try his hand at other things, too, like air traffic control or surgery. Hell, we already let him pretend to be president.