This! This analogy perfectly captures why in software, the second best thing always wins :-) [1] The utopian 'ideal' systems that can only be built slowly an

This! This analogy perfectly captures why in software, the second best thing always wins :-) [1] The utopian 'ideal' systems that can only be built slowly and methodically get crowded out by the systems that start with some scruffy code just keep moving. [1] UNIX vs Multics, Windows vs OS/2, MongoDB vs ?