h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I was in a rather heated debate and I had to write out my argument in the form of a poem, otherwise the steel "talk to the hand" I got would be seen as valid.

Akonadi

I gaze across to what I want,
it dances about in mad taunt.
The dream I see before I think,
Yet it somehow makes a valid link.

Beyond my dream are other folks,
who write code so bespoke.
They think of extension as if it were golden
and not of the people it must be sold on.

To create a new away from vice,
We can use the same code more than twice.
It's not a function that needs to go,
But the structure that must take the blow.

What is a core if not at root,
A part that can't be in a suite.
It must focus on all at once,
If it needs to be what it wants.

The work hard and the price great,
It is ok if it comes out late.
So long as the function is available,
to all that require it to be able.

Too late we think with eyes so short,
and forgo the the process we are taught.
For some new app we want to see,
The site of which we must agree.

How can one decide to chase,
without a home or sturdy base?
Those dreams we want to exist,
Depend on an ability to enlist.

Work together at some place,
So long as we're not focused some where else,
We can make something great,
But not unless we all best mates.

- Martin Owens