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Re:Problems with Skitch 2.0 by aytekin on Thursday September 20, 2012 @01:57AM (#4547206)
Sounds like they have done the classic rewrite mistake. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html

"When you throw away code and start from scratch, you are throwing away all that knowledge. All those collected bug fixes. Years of programming work."

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Re:Problems with Skitch 2.0 by Hagelin on Thursday September 20, 2012 @02:18AM (#4547258)
Sounds more like the classic we-need-a-client-for-our-service-so-we'll-buy-this-general-purpose-utility-with-a-large-fan-base-and-remove-any-functionality-that-doesn't-drive-them-to-use-our-service mistake. Don't have a Joel link for it.
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