Software needs to be maintained to be useful Maybe that’s the problem we need to be addressing. More and more these days I find myself frustrated using modern

Software needs to be maintained to be useful Maybe that’s the problem we need to be addressing. More and more these days I find myself frustrated using modern software when old unmaintained software had already solved the problem. We consider it a novelty when a writer like George RR Martin still uses WordStar on an old DOS machine [1]. Maybe it shouldn’t be a novelty. Maybe it should be the normal thing to do. It’s utterly at odds with a consumer culture though. People don’t seem to want well-made things that last a lifetime. They want shiny disposable crap. [1] https://youtu.be/X5REM-3nWHg https://youtu.be/X5REM-3nWHg