> One of my favorite reads is Joel Spolsky's Things You Should Never Do. He wrote this post almost twenty years ago, outlining the downfall of Netscape and othe

> One of my favorite reads is Joel Spolsky's Things You Should Never Do. He wrote this post almost twenty years ago, outlining the downfall of Netscape and others because they spent years rewriting working code. I've read that piece long ago, and over time my cynicism has ripened. Should I be surprised that the opinion of a former Microsoft employee is that Netscape's downfall was their own fault?