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Re:Driving engineers to an arbitrary date is a value destroy... by bishoprook2 on Friday August 06, 2021 @08:49AM (#28086427)
>The problem that the article doesn't address

Another. Industries that are oriented towards tradeshow or holiday launches. It ain't like they're going to move NAB or Christmas just for you. Inevitable feature pruning occurs.

Having said that, I wonder how many of the great fortunes have been built on horrid, half-finished websites and associated software that were all about being first out of the gate and heavy marketing.

An interesting subcase is software that is difficult or impossible to update vs. immovable deadlines. I guess in a world that consists entirely of one silly internet surveillance marketing company after another is doesn't really matter much anymore.

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Re:Driving engineers to an arbitrary date is a value destroy... by iso1631 on Friday August 06, 2021 @10:52AM (#28087952)
October will be interesting, wonder how busy NAB will be. I know one supplier from the UK who's planning on quarantining in the carribean for 2 weeks ahead of NAB because the US still wont let people from Europe in (other than Nigel Farage)
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Re:Driving engineers to an arbitrary date is a value destroy... by bishoprook2 on Friday August 06, 2021 @11:04AM (#28088129)
I think that eventually the vendors will decide that it's a waste of money.
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