Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How's the openrc update going for everyone?

[Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>]

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On Wed, 11 May 2011 20:40:02 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:

> > KDE devs decided to take the risk and make the jump ahead of the
> > curve.  
> 
>   Coca Cola went from Coke Classic to New Coke; at least they had the
> guts to admit that it was a bad idea, and reverse it.
> 
>   IBM walked away from their market leading AT.  Rather than put a 386
> cpu on the motherboard, they went with the PS/2 design, which bombed.
> 
>   Micropro *OWNED* word-processing with a DOS-port of their cpm-based
> Wordstar product.  People were begging and pleading with them to patch
> it to recognize subdirectories.  Instead, Micropro dropped Wordstar, and
> came up with a "user friendly" menu-driven abortion called Wordstar
> 2000.  That was the end.
> 
>   Do you see a pattern here?

The pattern I see is that of selecting only changes that failed and
implying they are the norm.

Why not add other improvements that were so bad, like the switch from
floppy disks to hard disks, or CDs to DVDs? Companies try to predict
where the market should go so they can lead. No one gets it right all
the time, the ones that survive are those that get it right often enough.
The ones that are most likely to fail are those that never try to
innovate in case someone doesn't like it.

The important point is that KDE wanted something better, it's unfortunate
that it took so much longer than planned, but it would have taken even
longer if they had not tried.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool.

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