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From: milod@netcom.com (John DiCamillo)
Subject: Re: The Impossible Project: not so funny... (Was: what's wrong)
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Tim Ottinger <tottinge@dave-world.net> writes:

>I added up all of the reasons I've seen things fall apart, and put them
>into a single nightmare scenario, to show how you can fail even with
>great, steaming wads of cash.

[loads of good funny stuff mercilessly snipped]

>You are not allowed to buy tools or libraries...

Or, my personal favorite:

You can buy all the libraries and tools you want.  However, they
are all mutually incompatible and at different release numbers
on different platforms.  At least one of the tools or libraries
will have a new release each month, rendering it incompatible
with anything it may have been compatible with in the past, and
introducing exciting new bugs to replace the old bugs that you
had already found work-arounds for.  The bugs you couldn't find
work-arounds for will be fixed in a future release, but only on
the platform you are not using.

(Hey, this is fun!  Let's do some more! :-)

You buy a source license to one of the tools so that you can fix
the bugs you couldn't work around, but now you must dedicate a
resource to keep re-fixing the bugs in each new release of the
tool, on each platform you need to support.

(Thanks for a pre-holiday chuckle, Tim!)

-- 
    ciao,
    milo
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    John DiCamillo                         Fiery the Angels Fell 
    milod@netcom.com       Deep thunder rode around their shores
