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Absolutely. I may not be happy about the people that do the free work for me doing work I wish they didn't do. But at least I'm sufficiently in control that I c
by ketralnis 3y ago
Absolutely. I may not be happy about the people that do the free work for me doing work I wish they didn't do. But at least I'm sufficiently in control that I can roll back, or that if literally the whole world hates the change that it can be forked.
Whereas Excel had the bug with date format detection that the entire world had to work around with no chance of getting it fixed. The genomics field had to change the name of a gene because even though they all knew it and must have had some population of people that had the skills to fix it, just couldn't until Microsoft got sufficiently embarassed by it after decades (https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-fixes-excel-feature-that-forced-scientists-to-1850949443 https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-fixes-excel-feature-that-force...)