[FOSS] How does one respond to this line of questioning?

[Bruce Dawson]

On 04/08/2011 08:41 AM, Bruce Labitt wrote:
>
> Makes me be more productive *is* the point.  Why would anyone want to
> be less productive ? 
>

If *your* high productivity makes the *team* less productive! But this
is frequently a management excuse.

Sorry, I just couldn't help but inject some real-life factors into this
conversation.

Re: Bone-headed responses to the efficiency of using OSS: some people
are just bone headed stubborn and refuse to change until it becomes
"their idea" to change. (Real World excuse: I don't have time to relearn
and adjust my values paradigm to open source.)

This whole conversation reminds me of the contention that existed
between Cobol and Fortran programmers. Put one or more of either into a
team with the others, and you're got a recipe for instant gray haired
managers - especially when reviewing each other's code!