Re: why

[Patrick Cox pdcox@xxxxxxxx]

Also, consumer software is actually a very young industry.
If you look at the car business in the first decades, I think
you would find parallels to the current state of software.
Also with televsions, phones, etc.



-----Original Message-----
>From: Russ Urquhart 
>Sent: Dec 16, 2005 10:06 AM
>To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: why
>
>There is a saying I like to mangle. (Anyone, and i'm sure we have
>someone here, who can tell me the original please do.)
>
>You get the OS you deserve.
>
>Russ
>On Dec 16, 2005, at 1:17 AM, flash wrote:
>
≫ Harry asked ≪why capitalism doesn't produce sensible software the way
≫ it produces sensible cars, shoes, etc.≫
≫
≫ I think iti is because customers don't demand better. And when they
≫ _had_ better, they got rid of it for the next version, which was
≫ worse.
≫ That's how we got stuck with Windows. I once had an Atari 1040F with a
≫ nifty little OS which booted from a diskette; it ran for 10 years
≫ without once crashing or corrupting a file. I put it out to pasture
≫ when
≫ it ran out of RAM, and I've not seen anything since which runs as
≫ reliably as that Atari OS did.
≫
≫ 
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