If you work in the software business, consider the irony of this thread. Software resists maintenance and enhancement, and is completely opaque — sometimes out

If you work in the software business, consider the irony of this thread. Software resists maintenance and enhancement, and is completely opaque — sometimes outright hostile — to the end user. Software companies deliberately lock users in to their platform and ecosystem to a degree hardware companies can only dream of. Huge profits come from the constant rewriting of working code by programmers who didn’t take the time to understand what their customers use, or need. Customers routinely get terrible estimates or plain stiffed by scammers and incompetent programmers. Conspiracy? And most of the software produced has such poor quality and reliability it makes Apple laptops five-9s by comparison.