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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.