More, flashy and newer
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Desktop developers like to add new features at every new release.
Go to the supermarket, and count the labels that, in flashy
symbols, mention that they are new, use a new formula, have new
components, and so on ...
In the eighties I worked at a company that produced a good
working Penicillin, but the marketeer department complained that
is was not new, making it harder to sell.
Sometimes it seems that the entire world is trying to compete
with new features, new shiny options, and so on.
If it ain't broken, don't fix it
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This week was a new release of the GNU version of ed. No shiny
new features. just some code improvements, that's all.
I still use and love the minimalistic window manager, ratpoison,
which I have been using for almost two decades.
Many of the elements of my Unix-y system are and work the same as
on my Linux desktop in the nineties. They work great, do what
they have to do, and don't need new features.
No to 1000 things
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Jobs once said:
"Innovation comes from saying no to 1,000 things".
A thoughtful quote, we must never forget.
Sure, some new additions to Emacs are great.
New features just for the sake of having new features are not.
