From: Skip Tavakkolian <9nut@9netics.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] More 'Sam I am'
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 09:41:02 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <739f50e7ab4d922384f867fd278daccc@9netics.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43ECCBC9.4020209@village.com>
> Some have all those attributes plus some integrity, some don't. Lots of
> lousy design is the result of deliberate attempts by perhaps "smart"
> people to control mindshare and lock in customers regardless of whether
> it makes their lives more difficult.
it could be the product of deliberate action, but i think it can
happen naturally. the more complex the software, the more support it
needs. so the support organism needs the software complexity as its
reason to exist, or even thrive. the support organism that also has
the propensity to invite in more complexity will get bigger - which in
some corporate structures means more powerful. it's a vicious cycle
until the host dies, or a competitor does slightly better. squaring
this hypothesis against reality, it seems to match. it's not
"intelligent design" but a random natural process.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-10 17:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 72+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-10 12:28 Aharon Robbins
2006-02-10 12:51 ` Dave Lukes
2006-02-10 14:04 ` Wes Kussmaul
2006-02-10 16:15 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-02-10 17:22 ` Wes Kussmaul
2006-02-10 17:41 ` Skip Tavakkolian [this message]
2006-02-10 18:21 ` Wes Kussmaul
2006-02-10 20:32 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2006-02-11 4:36 ` Marina Brown
2006-02-11 4:39 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2006-02-11 5:06 ` jmk
2006-02-11 6:52 ` lucio
2006-02-10 15:17 ` uriel
2006-02-10 17:42 ` Bakul Shah
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-02-24 13:36 quanstro
2006-02-24 13:49 ` Anselm R. Garbe
2006-02-24 14:24 ` Gabriel Ivanes
2006-02-24 0:55 quanstro
2006-02-24 3:46 ` yard-ape
2006-02-24 4:40 ` Lucio De Re
2006-02-25 7:43 ` Serge Gagnon
2006-04-24 18:05 ` Serge Gagnon
2006-02-11 4:48 quanstro
2006-02-11 11:22 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-02-11 3:40 quanstro
2006-02-11 0:10 quanstro
2006-02-11 3:01 ` jmk
2006-02-10 16:49 quanstro
2006-02-10 15:22 quanstro
2006-02-10 14:09 quanstro
2006-02-10 14:15 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-02-10 15:17 ` John Stalker
2006-02-10 13:44 quanstro
2006-02-10 13:57 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-02-08 4:34 Lyndon Nerenberg
2006-02-08 5:29 ` Russ Cox
2006-02-08 5:51 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2006-02-08 6:14 ` Russ Cox
2006-02-08 6:30 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2006-02-08 6:46 ` geoff
2006-02-08 6:50 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2006-02-08 17:31 ` Dan Cross
2006-02-08 18:14 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2006-02-08 21:28 ` Dan Cross
2006-02-10 9:47 ` Aharon Robbins
2006-02-10 10:45 ` Steve Simon
2006-02-10 14:40 ` Dan Cross
2006-02-10 22:53 ` lucio
2006-02-23 22:52 ` Victor Nazarov
2006-02-10 11:05 ` uriel
2006-02-10 12:59 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-02-08 18:20 ` uriel
2006-02-08 19:50 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-02-08 21:35 ` Dan Cross
2006-02-08 21:43 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-02-08 22:57 ` Christoph Lohmann
2006-02-09 0:03 ` Dan Cross
2006-02-09 0:17 ` Christoph Lohmann
2006-02-09 0:26 ` Dan Cross
2006-02-09 0:43 ` Christoph Lohmann
2006-02-09 1:11 ` andrey mirtchovski
2006-02-09 1:47 ` Christoph Lohmann
2006-02-09 1:56 ` Marina Brown
2006-02-09 2:35 ` Federico Benavento
2006-02-09 7:34 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-02-09 20:11 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-02-09 16:06 ` Dave Eckhardt
2006-02-09 22:44 ` Marina Brown
2006-02-09 23:06 ` Bakul Shah
2006-02-10 1:37 ` Micah Stetson
2006-02-08 22:58 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2006-02-09 13:04 ` LiteStar numnums
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