>Is there something fundamentally broken in how we develop and produce software as an industry? I would argue that this is indeed the case. The need to continu

>Is there something fundamentally broken in how we develop and produce software as an industry? I would argue that this is indeed the case. The need to continue upping that version number results in the inevitable bloat and cruft. Nobody is interested in putting out a maintenance release, and quite frankly, if a company released a major software update without new features we would collectively deride them for it. (Don't talk to me about Snow Leopard, even though they talked up the maintenance aspect of it they still promoted at on of new features.)