> it didn't crash, it just worked. You've got some very rose-tinted goggles. Remember the "blue screen of death" and how often it would appear? I used to rebo

> it didn't crash, it just worked. You've got some very rose-tinted goggles. Remember the "blue screen of death" and how often it would appear? I used to reboot my Windows machine regularly because a driver or the OS itself would shit the bed. Now I reboot my Mac|Windows|Linux machine once in a while. Installing a new application sometimes meant tinkering with ".ini" or other config files just to make it run on your system. Software has always, for the most part, been unstable and buggy. Am I happy about it? No, but it's an acceptable tradeoff IMO, as the alternative is the kind of regulation you see in established industries, which makes innovation extremely difficult and benefits entrenched players who know (and game) the system. (And I think we're going to see more regulation come anyway, as real-world consequences for bugs become more prevalent and serious.)