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Somebody claiming to be Luke Kanies wrote: > Oh come on now, who the heck wants to use modern operating system > technology? That just doesn't make any sense. I mean, I'm fine with > people doing research, and having lots of really great ideas that could > really make our lives easier and generally make computers better and > easier to manage, but to actually incorporate those ideas into the > technology we use? I think that's a bit extreme. Yeah. Ghod forbid we have to use software that sucks in familiar and stable ways. I want to be able to use software that has all the newest and shiniest hatefulness! And I want it to be fully configurable so when I get sick of it in a week I can upgrade to the newerest and shinierest hatefullness! If it ain't broke, break it! When somebody comes up with something that's actually *better* than 1970s technology, and not just different, I'll be elbowing my way to the front of the line to try it out. Until then, good ideas from 30 years ago are still better than bad ideas from last year, and stable implementations of 30-year-old technology are still better than unstable implementations of last year's technology. The really hateful thing is the way everybody is jumping on the technology-of-the-week instead of actually stopping to think about whether it's any good and whether it can be used without throwing out everything that's already known to work. dave (you don't really think ALL the software ideas from the '70s are still around, do you?)
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