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Re: Libtool 1.4.3
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Eric Siegerman |
Subject: |
Re: Libtool 1.4.3 |
Date: |
Tue, 8 Oct 2002 14:08:57 -0400 |
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On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 01:30:37PM -0400, Thomas E. Dickey wrote:
> Deliberately introducing design incompatibilities simply encourages people
> to use other tools.
Then why's MS Office so popular? :-)
Seriously, so can failing to introduce them, if the price of
compatibility is to avoid making essential changes for the
better.
(I once read that a few decades back, companies like Zenith and
Electrohome chose not to make solid-state TV sets, because they
wanted to protect the demand for the output of their vacuum-tube
plants. Japanese companies, lacking a domestic tube industry,
were more willing to adopt the new, radically incompatible
technology Of course we lost the tube industry after all ... and
gave away the TV-set industry along with it.)
I'm sure there are many examples on both sides, both in the
software domain and otherwise. Which just goes to show, neither
adapt-or-die nor compatibility-at-all-costs is a reasonable
attitude. In practice, it's often a tradeoff.
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|-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont. address@hidden
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The acronym for "the powers that be" differs by only one letter
from that for "the pointy-haired boss".
- Re: Libtool 1.4.3, (continued)
- Re: Libtool 1.4.3, Russ Allbery, 2002/10/08
- Re: Libtool 1.4.3, Pavel Roskin, 2002/10/08
- Re: Libtool 1.4.3, Akim Demaille, 2002/10/09
- Re: Libtool 1.4.3, Thomas E. Dickey, 2002/10/09
- Re: Libtool 1.4.3, Russ Allbery, 2002/10/09
- Re: Libtool 1.4.3, Thomas E. Dickey, 2002/10/08
- Re: Libtool 1.4.3, Thomas E. Dickey, 2002/10/08
- Re: Libtool 1.4.3, Bob Friesenhahn, 2002/10/08
- Re: Libtool 1.4.3 - unsolvable issue, Allan Clark (rply to list pls), 2002/10/08
- Re: Libtool 1.4.3, Sascha Schumann, 2002/10/08
- Re: Libtool 1.4.3,
Eric Siegerman <=
- Re: Libtool 1.4.3, Thomas E. Dickey, 2002/10/08
- Re: Libtool 1.4.3, Andreas Schwab, 2002/10/09
- Re: Libtool 1.4.3, Thomas Dickey, 2002/10/09
- Re: Libtool 1.4.3, Andreas Schwab, 2002/10/09
- Re: Libtool 1.4.3, Thomas Dickey, 2002/10/09
- Re: Libtool 1.4.3, Stephan Kulow, 2002/10/09
- Re: Libtool 1.4.3, Earnie Boyd, 2002/10/08
- Re: Libtool 1.4.3, Sascha Schumann, 2002/10/08
- Re: Libtool 1.4.3, Akim Demaille, 2002/10/09
- Re: Libtool 1.4.3, Sascha Schumann, 2002/10/09