On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 12:59:11PM +0100, Svenn Are Bjerkem wrote: > On Friday 28 February 2003 11:26, Paul Johnson wrote: > > Why is obscelesence somehow a surprise to people? > > Because you don't expect your vacuum cleaner to > need a new hose every 3 years... ?
I don't think you could have chosen a worse analogy. A vacuum cleaner is a commodity. For the most part, the design of vacuum cleaners is rather complete; that is there are very few revolutionary ideas in the vacuum cleaner industry. There's certainly nothing like Moore's Law at work. In fact, the only real reason you ever need to replace your vacuum cleaner is because it is designed to wear out. However, software is attempting to solve problems that are moving targets. New technologies are invented every day that require new software and/or changes to existing software. New problems are discovered every day that require new software and/or changes to existing software. On and on it goes. In fact, if all existing software is "good enough", then there never was a need for linux at all. -- Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
