Spoothe has posted the minutes from a real-life project meeting for Godot that I'd like to think is existentialist fiction, except that I know it is not.

Spoothe: "We need to build a lawnmower that cuts grass quickly and efficiently."

Priests of Process: "What this project calls for is a vegetation reduction device built with procedures compliant with ISO 9001 quality standards and extensible to meet future horticultural needs. Of course, we will need to properly scope this device to make sure that we should not, in fact, be building a dog house."

He's lucky, of course, because they ran out of time before they could drag in a list of coolness factors only included because the Priest of New Technologies wanted to spend a few hours 'getting up to speed' with what the hip kids on the IRC are raving about ...

Yes, folks, this is where your high-priced commercial softwares, online and off, this is where it is all being forged. Not all of it, of course, and less if it's open-team opensourced, but there's a sad whack of it that is like breakfast cereal, 60% brand-building dazzle, and 30% in butt-covering paper-trails.