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Re: Doc, you maniac
Rusty you might be surprised. Software is always heading in new directions, getting closer to the work process, esp in engineering and marketing, and when it does, companies differentiate themselves based on how work flows and their software systems need lots of customization. At some level we suck more and more of what used to be experimental into the operating system (we all do it, not just the recognized OS vendors) but there's always a frontier where the users do the customization and R&D for the suckers. If you view software at a single moment in time you miss this effect. There's always another upheaval waiting to happen, as developers figure out how to commercialize what the users have been doing at a one-off level. Or when users get tired of waiting for the gorillas to move and do it themselves.
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