On Mar 6, 2020, at 22:03, Robert Jeffares <jeffares.rob...@gmail.com> wrote:
> It must be heartbreaking for people to write code for an operating system > that that have made a commitment to, and probably purchased or licenced > source code so their software will run, to find that the latest version, now > the sole version, has been re written such that their original code no longer > functions well, if at all. This has been the basic M$ game since at least the late 80s. Change a bunch of stuff, deprecate a bunch of other stuff, then release it with great fanfare as something “better”. Sometimes, some things *are* actually improvements, but mostly it’s an exercise in Change For The Sake Of Change, so they can sell the whole stack all over again (not just the code, but manuals, books, training, professional certifications, etc, etc). Being a huge multinational conglomerate means having *large* fixed costs which must be covered come hell or high water. Linux is not wholly immune to this phenomenon either (just look at GNOME 3), but the FOSS community has many Linux distros to choose from, as well as tools, techniques and an overall *culture* that are conducive to minimizing its effects (not to mention an overall pool of coders, writers and support people at least an order of magnitude larger than anything M$ can bring to bear). Cheers! |---------------------------------------------------------------------| | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Chief Developer | | | Paravel Systems | |---------------------------------------------------------------------| | The day-to-day travails of the Windows (tm) programmer are so | | amusing to most of us who are fortunate enough never to have been | | one -- like watching Charlie Chaplin trying to cook a shoe. | |---------------------------------------------------------------------|
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