Re:Ask HN: Right to Repair for Software?
by dgb23 on Friday January 27, 2023 @05:37AM
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There are programs, protocols, ecosystems and programmers that favor stability. However seems to be that the closer you get to the user, the less stable and simple things are. It's ironic or maybe even hypocritical of us programmers to prefer stable tools for ourselves, but then move around and break stuff for our users every few months.
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Re:Ask HN: Right to Repair for Software?
by account42 on Friday January 27, 2023 @06:31AM
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Stability is really something that we need to get a lot better at as programmers. Perhaps accesibility laws/guidelines should limit UI changes for automatic/required updates - you can always have users opt into your shiny newfangled UI if you want, but leave the old one instead of confusing your users.