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Spolsky has a talent for using very specific examples in his just-so-stories that then later turn out to be the purest counterexample he could have picked. Lik
by blasdel 17y ago
Spolsky has a talent for using very specific examples in his just-so-stories that then later turn out to be the purest counterexample he could have picked.
Like using Netscape -> Mozilla as your example of why you should never ever rewrite software from scratch.
- wallflower 17y agoMozilla Firefox was forked from the rewritten Mozilla codebase From the original Spolsky: > Netscape 6.0 is finally going into its first public beta...Well, yes. They did. They did it by making the single worst strategic mistake that any software company can make: They decided to rewrite the code from scratch. http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/releases/0.1.html http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/releases/0.1.html http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-users@linux-sxs.org/msg06717.html http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-users@linux-sxs.org/msg067...