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Re: GNUism in groff tests, was: pic anomalies
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Nate Bargmann |
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Re: GNUism in groff tests, was: pic anomalies |
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Fri, 3 Jan 2020 09:08:48 -0600 |
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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
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