Why Should I Care What Color the Bikeshed Is?

This is an email written by Poul-Henning Kamp back in Oct 1999 in response to a thread he started innocently enough. He works (had worked?) on the FreeBSD operating system and his initial thread was entitled “sleep(1) should do fractional seconds” Not a big deal you say??? Well, that’s the point…

http://www.bikeshed.com/
or
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=506636+517178+/usr/local/www…

These ideas apply even more today then they did 10 years ago. Maybe not exactly geospatial technology but very apropos to online collaboration such as this site.