Echoing these thoughts was this thread on the Ag Talk (agricultural focused set of forums) forum yesterday regarding an update to the Weather Underground app:
https://talk.newagtalk.com/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=897280&mid=7946171#M7946171 Perhaps companies, or rather the management of companies, cannot realize that a lot of good will can be squandered over an ill-advised update that breaks a working version. I had this sort of nonsense put upon me when buying a Norton Utilities update about 25 years ago. Being given a Slackware Linux CD in late summer 1996 changed my life and much for the better. Some Free Software projects seem to have the rockstar illness where a rewrite must occur every so often in the language de jur. Thankfully, most Free Software just continues on a progression of refinement and enhancement. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: https://github.com/N0NB GPG fingerprint: 82D6 4F6B 0E67 CD41 F689 BBA6 FB2C 5130 D55A 8819
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