Guest legg Posted May 2, 2008 Posted May 2, 2008 Aside from churning out new OS revisions, some profit might be had from looking at current examples of old systems that, in spite of the status quo, have somehow managed to survive, in daily practical use, and without the benefits of a re-install. After all, with penicillin growing on stale bread, who knows what accidental benefits can be created by continually recovering from random errors over a length of time.......... This was always an informative aspect of hardware product development - getting some ancient and field returns that had been ridden hard and put away wet, to pore over (usually in your spare time, though, I'll admit). RL
Guest Don Phillipson Posted May 2, 2008 Posted May 2, 2008 Re: Finding out what works, and maybe why. "legg" <legg@nospam.magma.ca> wrote in message news:b55m149lpnfsmfb99ljh0evrgp65739dqh@4ax.com... > Aside from churning out new OS revisions, some profit might be had > from looking at current examples of old systems that, in spite of the > status quo, have somehow managed to survive, in daily practical use, > and without the benefits of a re-install. If you look into the Linux community you may find what you seek has been going on continuously for quite a few years. The reason seems to be a critical mass of sufficiently skilled users, who are more interested in results than in profits. We must expect profit-oriented companies to focus their energies by ignoring fields they judge less profitable (which never means unprofitablel.) -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada)
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