It was thus said that the Great Mike Ford once stated:
>
> This is the sickest aspect of the whole computer industry, ALL of the
> companies that made fairly good reliable products went under from the flood
> of dollars the BAD heavily marketed software generated via updates.
Bad software drives out the good. It's simply easier to make bad software
and the perception is time to market is the *only* thing that counts.
For more on this, read The Rise of ``Worse is Better'' by Richard Gabriel.
You can find it at
http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html
-spc (It bugs me too ... )
Received on Sun May 07 2000 - 02:43:12 BST