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A lot of scathing critiques in here, but they remind me of the parable of the blind folks and the elephant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant

    The parable of the blind men and an elephant is a story of a group of blind
    men who have never come across an elephant before and who learn and imagine
    what the elephant is like by touching it. Each blind man feels a different
    part of the animal's body, but only one part, such as the side or the tusk.
    They then describe the animal based on their limited experience and their
    descriptions of the elephant are different from each other. In some
    versions, they come to suspect that the other person is dishonest and they
    come to blows. The moral of the parable is that humans have a tendency to
    claim absolute truth based on their limited, subjective experience as they
    ignore other people's limited, subjective experiences which may be equally
    true.[1][2] The parable originated in the ancient Indian subcontinent, from
    where it has been widely diffused.

So section 2 does not jibe with enterprise development, section 3 does not agree with embedded development, and section 8 does not fit well with web startups? These three industries have different requirements, not just from each other but from controllers for skyscrapers and space probes too.

This document is trying to find common ground, and so will offend folks in camp X, Y, or Z that their case is not handled well enough. Please be mindful that other sets of requirements exist.




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