Quality Software Development - Science or Art?

In a thoughtful and well reasoned post on Sys-Con, Dirk Morris draws on the arguments in Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance to put forward the view that software development is both Science and Art. Rather more interestingly he suggests that Open Source tends more towards the science, and proprietary software tends more towards the art, citing Apple's OS X as the prime example - open source engineering at the core, with proprietary eye candy on top.

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