Apparently, though unproven, at 02:40 on Thursday 12 May 2011, Walter Dnes did opine thusly:
> On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 05:45:07PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote > > > KDE devs decided to take the risk and make the jump ahead of the curve. > > Coca Cola went from Coke Classic to New Coke; at least they had the > guts to admit that it was a bad idea, and reverse it. > > IBM walked away from their market leading AT. Rather than put a 386 > cpu on the motherboard, they went with the PS/2 design, which bombed. > > Micropro *OWNED* word-processing with a DOS-port of their cpm-based > Wordstar product. People were begging and pleading with them to patch > it to recognize subdirectories. Instead, Micropro dropped Wordstar, and > came up with a "user friendly" menu-driven abortion called Wordstar > 2000. That was the end. > > Do you see a pattern here? Yes. It's the pattern where you selectively cherry pick stuff that supports your point. Do you *really* want to go down this road? Because that argument can't end well for you. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
