17: The State of Alt.Net

Mike Moore came out of retirement for one more conversation with Scott Bellware on the current state of Alt.NET.

Scott's Tweets:

• and people wonder why I refute alt.net. it has merely become the new fundamentalism that was predicted two years ago at Austin altnetconf.
• alt.net's sole struggle appears to be to replace the current problematic status quo and replace it with itself
• alt.net has become the problem that it had sought to address. it is the next gen problem that will hopefully inspire much deeper movement.
• i am likely the only person who has sat and wept at the loss of potential that is what has become of alt.net. so much work. so much lost.
• alt.net is increasingly an avenue to increased microsoft payola for former progressive community voices

The Curve:

Mike and Scott cover the following:

• Crossing the Chasm
• Teaching, Symbology, and Intellectual Materialism – The Chasm is a Vacuum
• "Lonely people commiserating together."
• Technology evangelism
• Progressive software development
• Software craftsmanship
• SOLID principles
• Chad Meyers Posts
• "Every tool is a weapon - if you hold it right." - Ani DiFranco
• Orthodoxy & dogma

-James and Mike