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I hate this quote. People still use things like floppy drives and fax machines in certain applications not because those devices are better but because of insti

I hate this quote. People still use things like floppy drives and fax machines in certain applications not because those devices are better but because of institutional inertia and bureaucracy. And the stuff we use isn't always the best thing out there, better products can still lose. Just look at Oracle.

ElectricalUnion 4y ago
> And the stuff we use isn't always the best thing out there, better products can still lose. Better products will lose, most of the time, unless they're significantly better as a product to a point were they can hurt and displace the incumbents. It's what people found out with Plan 9 vs UNIX.