Software is a tool designed to help solve a problem. Tools need to be reliable. The thing is, at least in the MS-DOS/Windows world I grew up with, software was

Software is a tool designed to help solve a problem. Tools need to be reliable. The thing is, at least in the MS-DOS/Windows world I grew up with, software was stable in that if it worked for you now, it would work for you, for decades. We can't trust our operating systems to do their jobs, and this is deranging conversations about software. You shouldn't need to update software other than for bug fixes, or to get a newer, better replacement. It should be entirely optional. You should be able to just download anything off the internet, and try it out, like we did back in the 1980s with floppy disks full of software. Instead, we're all afraid to even open the wrong email or web site. We're in a Black Mirror[1] version of the world in which everything but the operating system is supposed to be extra careful, and get blamed if the OS doesn't do its job. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Mirror https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Mirror