Deposing Dictators
Borcis
borcis at geneva-link.ch
Mon Jul 30 16:19:45 EDT 2001
Dirck Blaskey wrote:
>
(...)
> > Useful programs aren't discarded so fast as development fashions and
> > religions.
(...)
> Inertia in the software world is a huge force, and always
> to be fought tooth and nail, because generally what Inertia means is:
> "Just live with our mistakes because we can't afford to fix them."
> This is an extremely depressing state.
You might find it comforting to consider the trojan
in the Bible - e.g. the original sin : the injunction
not to acquire morals from a supernatural source...
I guess it must be about 3k years old. Now that's inertia.
Boris Borcic
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