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Apparently, though unproven, at 02:40 on Thursday 12 May 2011, Walter Dnes did |
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opine thusly: |
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> On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 05:45:07PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote |
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> > KDE devs decided to take the risk and make the jump ahead of the curve. |
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> Coca Cola went from Coke Classic to New Coke; at least they had the |
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> guts to admit that it was a bad idea, and reverse it. |
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> IBM walked away from their market leading AT. Rather than put a 386 |
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> cpu on the motherboard, they went with the PS/2 design, which bombed. |
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> Micropro *OWNED* word-processing with a DOS-port of their cpm-based |
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> Wordstar product. People were begging and pleading with them to patch |
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> it to recognize subdirectories. Instead, Micropro dropped Wordstar, and |
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> came up with a "user friendly" menu-driven abortion called Wordstar |
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> 2000. That was the end. |
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> Do you see a pattern here? |
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Yes. It's the pattern where you selectively cherry pick stuff that supports |
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your point. |
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Do you *really* want to go down this road? Because that argument can't end |
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well for you. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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