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standard gripe about technologies being declared "dead" merely because they are no longer growing, rather than because they are suffering from a vanishingly tin
by cellularmitosis 15y ago
standard gripe about technologies being declared "dead" merely because they are no longer growing, rather than because they are suffering from a vanishingly tiny user-base
- ootachi 15y agoTechnologies that are no longer growing tend to result in cost-cutting, leading to engineers in the US and Europe getting laid off for offshoring. So "if it's not growing, it's dead" is actually a rather good approximation of the status quo.
- Groxx 15y ago'Dead' doesn't exist in the article, it's a (pointless) bit of editorializing by the submitter. The article revolves around email having stagnated, which pretty nicely fits the "no longer growing" part.
- michaelneale 15y agoyeah editors removed that (I shouldn't have added it).