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Re:Good Software Takes Ten Years. Get Used To it. by sanj on Wednesday March 12, 2008 @12:27PM (#135220)
Joel's using ubiquitousness as a metric of "good", not necessarily if it is liked.
Re:Good Software Takes Ten Years. Get Used To it. by pchristensen on Wednesday March 12, 2008 @12:45PM (#135243)
And if you're running a software business, ubiquitousness = sales = successful = good. You can't care too much about some cranky geeks if tens of thousands of customers are paying you good money for the work you've done. (Don't take offense, I'm a cranky geek too :) )