At 7:59 AM +0100 11/1/07, Jari Williamsson wrote:
David W. Fenton wrote:
Consider the case of Netscape, which chucked its entire codebase
and started from scratch.
Which is kind of my point. A rewrite, using mainly the same kind of
thinking, using mainly the same kind of tools, will not solve
anything.
I think I understand both sides here, but they leave me confused.
Partly because I've used Netscape exclusively since I first gained
access to the internet, back in the early '90s, and have never wanted
or needed anything else. Yes, it's now called Navigator, and it's
based (apparently) on Mozilla or Firefox or whatever, which is
supposed to be a big improvement, and yes, I'm learning to use Tabs,
but it still gives me the functionality I need.
David's reasoning seems to be that Netscape lost money during a
fallow period, but that didn't affect me and it apparently didn't
cause the company to fail. Wouldn't it be a good business plan to
continue supporting a program based on ancient code while at the same
time developing a new program with new code and none of the old
problems, designed to replace the older program, and able to open ALL
files from the old program, regardless of version?
But hey, man, I'm just in the band!
John
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