Ruination by innovation

last updated: Jan 06, 2026

many tech products were finished and then they kept 'innovating' until they were ruined. imo when a piece of software is over 15 years old, it should be legally removed from the custody of the rapacious american startup-turned-corporation whose uncompromising unsentimentality originally birthed it, and instead given to a medium-size, 120-year-old german company with modest annual revenue growth and 80 employees who produce a type of tube that goes inside air conditioning units of freight trains

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