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Subject: Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2025 06:35:10 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2025-04-26, Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On 2025-04-26, chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> wrote:
>> Borax Man wrote:
>>
>>>What I was referring to problem, isn't limited to software.  It seems to
>>>be a Millenial trait in general, or of younger people.  That is, they
>>>want to work on what they want to work on, rather than what needs to be
>>>done.  People seeing their work as an opportunity to do what they think
>>>is best, rather than what *other* people need.  They think that "work"
>>>is just a way they can actualise themselves.  Companies bend towards
>>>this, catering to their needs, rather than the companies, or the
>>>customers needs.  We, the users, need our software to work.  If you want
>>>to work on it, your role is to stop our stuff breaking.
>>
>> I don't know why you think that people can "do what they want" in
>> defiance of market forces.  The same with companies "bending" away
>> from their needs or their customers' needs.
>>
>> If they don't do the right things, they will be beaten in the market
>> by someone who is.
>>
>
> Not necessarily.  This idea that "market forces" just fixes things runs
> contrary to observed experience.  Many companies still turn a profit
> DESPITE massive ineffeciecies and avoidable errors.  This is an
> ideological position, not one based on observation of the real world.
> Also, the "market" often moves according to external forces, or it
> doesn't due t intertia, or network effects.  ie, you use product X, not
> becaues its good, but because you need to interact with others also
> using product X.  Product X can turn to crap, but you can't leave,
> because that is where everyone still is.

A prime example, Windows.

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