Re:Show HN: BitKeeper – Enterprise-ready version control, no...
by JdeBP on Thursday May 12, 2016 @12:37PM
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> software [...] does not have an expiration date.
xscreensaver does. (-:
* https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=819703
* https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xscreensaver/+bug/...
In case of software, it is never too late: as you once put it so eloquently, software does not suddenly stop working and does not have an expiration date.
If this software works and works well, then Paul Graham's revolutionary idea of when you choose technology, you have to ignore what other people are doing, and consider only what will work the best applies. (Common sense really, but apparently not to the rest of our industry.)
If this software will work the best, and do exactly what I want and need it to do, I have enough experience to know not to care that everyone else runs something like git just because that is trendy right now. (A lesson appreciated by those who run SmartOS because it is the best available technology for virtualization, cloud, and performance, instead of running Linux and Docker.)