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I strongly disagree with Joel here. It's true that storage is much cheaper today, but every piece of software I use is downloaded from the internet. Not everyon
by jakobe 13y ago
I strongly disagree with Joel here. It's true that storage is much cheaper today, but every piece of software I use is downloaded from the internet. Not everyone has 10MBit connections. If you make software, and especially updates, unnecessarily large, you will cut off a percentage of your users.
I'm not saying you should axe features to make the app smaller. But please, if you distribute software, spend a few hours and try to make the download size as small as possible.
- ben336 13y agoNote that this was written in 2001 when the statement "every piece of software I use is downloaded from the internet" would have been ridiculous at the time. Not saying your point isn't valid, but just pointing out that its not something that should have been addressed by the article.
- jlgreco 13y ago> 2001 when the statement "every piece of software I use is downloaded from the internet" would have been ridiculous at the time. Not for the sort of people that he is arguing against in this post, such as Linus Åkerlund who is arguing for using computers "the UNIX way" with GNU/Linux. Downloading your distro from the internet was very old-hat by 2001.
- Spooky23 13y agoIt was written in 2001... Software was mostly delivered by CD.