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Re:Tell HN: Submit comments on IRS guidance to SEC 174 expenses by PaulDavisThe1st on Saturday November 04, 2023 @04:08PM (#38144649)
Every DAW except Bitwig, every non-browser based image editing tool, almost every web browser, every OS, half(?) the apps in any app store, every IDE I can think of, every text editor and word processor and spreadsheet ...

all far, far older than 5 years.

Re:Tell HN: Submit comments on IRS guidance to SEC 174 expenses by cma on Saturday November 04, 2023 @05:31PM (#38145338)
Survivorship bias?
Re:Tell HN: Submit comments on IRS guidance to SEC 174 expenses by jowea on Saturday November 04, 2023 @08:19PM (#38146647)
But how much of the development effort for those took place in the last 5 years, even if the codebase is much older?
Re:Tell HN: Submit comments on IRS guidance to SEC 174 expenses by jncfhnb on Monday November 06, 2023 @02:30PM (#38167599)
I’m not clear what you’re expecting.

Most of the development effort for such things happened in the past 5 years? That sounds unlikely.