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pjmorris • yesterday at 10:55 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

There are older predictions than that...

"If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization." - Gerald Weinberg, 1970's

> let the market fix the mess which the central planners have created

Isn't a Microsoft dependency failure market-driven? Compared to the 1960's and 1970's, the present-day software industry is much more driven by the market than it is by the government.


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acobster • yesterday at 11:01 PM

> Isn't a Microsoft dependency failure market-driven?

Not only that, but perhaps if anti-trust laws were actually enforced, we might actually have competitive alternatives.