> fixing software today fixes it for everyone, in the world, going forward (and for connected computers, going backward as well). this would be true if reality

> fixing software today fixes it for everyone, in the world, going forward (and for connected computers, going backward as well). this would be true if reality didn't change underneath it. the people who are saying 'maintenance is where this breaks' are right. Not sure I agree with the author that 'our software can get better' but it would definitely be nice. Software exists in an ecosystem and there are 'resource and competition' reasons for bad software that aren't visible if you just look at the codebase.