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Suppose someone ships a powerful GUI tool (a thin layer of Tcl/Tk on top of a pile of incomplete and obscure command line programs), showing a list of files with plain text comments for each file. Suppose this GUI tool is so powerful it won't let you: * copy & paste text (unless it's the /entire/ content of the text window) * move in the text area using Home and End keys (these are reserved for scrolling the list of files) * I could go on and on - in fact, it would only let you type a comment and move to next file. Suppose this GUI tool does 1 (one) useful thing: sorts the files by name. What on Earth can make the above-mentioned someone to remove the sorting in the next version, not adding a single new feature? Sadly, the question is not merely rethorical, since that someone is BitMover, and the powerful GUI tool is `bk citool`. Maybe they've created a FileSorter ($2K/seat per year), and they don't want internal competition.
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