2014-04-26 10:52:28 -04:00
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Zawinski's Law
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs
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which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can. Coined by Jamie
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Zawinski (who called it the Law of Software Envelopment ) to express his
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belief that all truly useful programs experience pressure to evolve into
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toolkits and application platforms (the mailer thing, he says, is just a
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side effect of that). It is commonly cited, though with widely varying
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degrees of accuracy.
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