
28 Oct
2011
28 Oct
'11
6:57 a.m.
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 10:55:49AM +1100, Peter Ross wrote:
As soon as there was one graphical environment working, it was replaced by something "brand new".
that's because rewriting from scratch every two or three years is far cooler and more exciting than doing something boring like adding incremental improvements, fixing bugs, or writing documentation. it's what Jamie Zawinski calls The CADT Model http://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html IMO it's a pretty accurate observation. craig -- craig sanders <cas@taz.net.au> BOFH excuse #130: new management