I've been meaning to post this for months now, since a wise friend, who has more experience than me about being a father, send me a congrats email about our developing baby. I am quoting below part of his message, and it is indeed right on the money.
(...) As you likely know, kids are open source - everyone wants to add code and then let you maintain it - but there is no documentation because the programmers are too busy to write anything down. And just when you get a moment to relax the code blows up and you have to change it. Hopefully there is is technical support - grandmothers, etc. (...)
[Richard E. Hoskins, Personal communication, July 24, 2008]
Really, I got nothing to add to that, except that I hope to do my best maintaining my son's (or daughter's) "code".










