Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/08/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Arne writes: > But any piece of software depends on many > external variables in order to run correctly: Hold the variables constant, and you can use the software forever. > In order to prevent that the functionality > that a particular piece of software represents > does not wear out, that piece of software needs > to be maintained and updated to work as the > external variables change. Sounds like the marketroids have done their work well. It's important to get people to believe that software has to be continually updated, just as Detroit once had people believing that cars had to be regularly replaced, whether they ran or not.