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> In a shrinking world without software innovation, most software suppliers will not be able to count on increasing customer revenue to fund routinely rewriting
by lexicality 3y ago
> In a shrinking world without software innovation, most software suppliers will not be able to count on increasing customer revenue to fund routinely rewriting their software from scratch when it rots
The author doesn't seem to understand that software rots because of software and hardware innovation.
The entire point of RHEL and CentOS is that they have extremely limited changes so you can optimise for a very specific and stable situation.
If everything ossifies then software won't magically start failing other than inherent bugs (like the 2038 date problem)
- cubefox 3y agoEven things that still work might no longer be safe to use once there is nobody who is able to maintain it. The associated risk might simply be to high.
- lexicality 3y agoWhy would there be nobody able to maintain it?
- cubefox 3y agoBecause of a declining world population and work force. See the blog post.
- lexicality 3y agoIt seems to me that in the author's vision of a world where everything is controlled by software but no new software or hardware is created, the only jobs available will be doing software and hardware maintenance. That said, I have met very few founders with the kind of morals to shut down their company due to the risk of no maintenance.