(I mean "rant" in the best DennisMiller? tradition, not as criticism.)
http://ccm.redhat.com/asj/managing-software-engineers/
An article on the ArsDigita Web site by PhilipGreenspun. It was mentioned in SlashDot; the comments can be found here:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/11/06/1448235&mode=nested
The big controversy is PhilipGreenspunOnOvertime. --PaulChisholm