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_delirium on May 2, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Stop “Disrupting” Everything

Software is the original worse-is-better domain: Richard P. Gabriel coined the term to describe competition between software packages.

msandford on May 2, 2013 [–]

You're right of course, when dealing with desktop software packages. I was only thinking of the online web-startup stuff which is generally just plain better.

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