The Reality of Funky Software
In announcing that update 8 for Croquet Collaborative is now available, Howard Sterns says
In Croquet today, as with all software, things will go wrong. We would like there to never be errors, and we will hunt down every one we encounter. But that will take a while, and what work of man can ever be said to be perfect?
As Dave Winer also recently pointed out about Wordpress, the acknowledgement that software by it’s nature is a bit funky is a good and necessary thing. Pushing that understanding down into the code, ultimately all the way through to the hardware and up through the scripting environment and user-interface will help create an efficient meshverse.