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"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell." ~ Edward Abbey What irks me is lots of products are "done" but continue to receive pointles
by hgs3 3y ago
"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell." ~ Edward Abbey
What irks me is lots of products are "done" but continue to receive pointless changes - whether that be UX changes, half-backed features, or regressions in functionality. And for what? So the marketing department has something to market, so engineers can justify their continued employment?
This problem isn't limited to the business world either. Even in the open source community there is a tendency to assume that if a project isn't receiving regular code changes, then it must be "dead" or "unsupported" when in actuality it _might_ be a sign the project is mature and stable.
- paulryanrogers 3y agoIn the case of FOSS the reputation for old being worse has something to do with ever evolving platforms. You can still use unchanged GNU utilities and apps from the mid 90's. But you'd have to run it with layers of emulation or shims. And it couldn't handle newer formats or protocols.