> "But when you’re looking at, ‘We’ve got to go from zero to done in six weeks,’ well, I can’t do that unless I cut something out. And what I’m going to cut out

> "But when you’re looking at, ‘We’ve got to go from zero to done in six weeks,’ well, I can’t do that unless I cut something out. And what I’m going to cut out is the stuff that’s not absolutely critical." [...] > Remember, before you freak out, that Zawinski was at Netscape when they were changing the world. They thought that they only had a few months before someone else came along and ate their lunch. A lot of important code is like that. It makes sense that, under these circumstances, their #1 priority was to ship, to bring a product to market before others did. Even if the first version sucked, it would still be better than no product. Unfortunately this is exactly the kind of situation that gave us IE, and we still have to deal with the after-effects today. I wonder if this would count as an argument against the often-touted claim that "competition makes products better". It sure didn't cause browsers to be better in the late 90s. In fact, we didn't start to see decent browsers until after the browser wars, after IE's dominance had been established.