Re:The Cathedral and the Bizarre
by coldtea on Saturday December 14, 2019 @09:13PM
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>Somehow the link [0] cited in the article makes an indirect similar point, but what's wrong with programs which are not updated?
Bit rot, for one (not keeping up with changing OSes, APIs they talk to, environments, libs they use, security concerns, etc), but also the fact that when they stopped updating they were still incomplete and more often than not half arsed.
Bit rot, for one (not keeping up with changing OSes, APIs they talk to, environments, libs they use, security concerns, etc), but also the fact that when they stopped updating they were still incomplete and more often than not half arsed.