5 ms·

Why? It's not like it's broken.

• deong 12y ago
  Yet. If it's "dead", it's only a matter of (not very much) time before it doesn't work anymore.
  • tormeh 12y ago
    That software can't ever just be finished is a problem that needs to be solved.
    • shawn-furyan 12y ago
      This problem doesn't seem tractable in anything approaching the near term. There are just too many dynamic layers, each with their own competing product ecosystems, which in turn each are controlled by competing interests. Perhaps at some point in the future the entire stack from hardware to application level APIs will become commodity products that nobody benefits from differentiating. At that time, perhaps software can just be finished once it arrives at feature maturity. Until then, UX, architectural, security and other assumptions made about the application environment will continue to age poorly, and software products will become outmoded unless actively developed.
    • LeonRobrotsky 12y ago
      To an extent, having the source available is a good solution.
• hobarrera 12y ago
  No development + no source + time = broken.