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I love all the comments here about "how could this be?" Repeat after me...There is no magic. There is no perfect. This software was used by hundreds of millio

I love all the comments here about "how could this be?" Repeat after me...There is no magic. There is no perfect. This software was used by hundreds of millions, if not billions, of people. They got work done with it. Think your favorite pile of C code is "more correct" or "more sublime"? Maybe. By many measures of successful that doesn't matter. And that's why those "it will be perfect this time" rewrites of UNIX/Linux aren't in use and Unix/Linux is.

wruza 9y ago
By many measures of correct, success also doesn't matter. Let's remember how many flaws were the cause of time, money, mood loss of many people. How do you know which is more important at the level of something like an OS? Btw, the time when legacy support was crucial is long gone. App stores and automatic updates will make it absolutely transparent in few decades. Windows is probably the last OS where you download and execute random ancient chunks from the raw internet -- nothing to be proud of.