On Maw, 2004-06-22 at 16:20, Daniel Jarboe wrote: > reflect the change. Spending the additional resources to > write "higher-quality" code just didn't pay anymore. Good > enough was, well, good enough (and cost a lot less).
Your average user cannot tell good from bad code. This leads rapidly to a market where everyone will only pay on the basis that they expect to buy crap, which means nobody can afford to develop good stuff. Its the classic lemons & pears economics argument. Also in many cases "this application needs 1Gbyte of RAM" to the end user comes down to "$100 hardware update shared between several apps" so its peanuts in PCdom (and for older SDRAM using boxes $100 means you overpaid 8)) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
