Re: code bloat [was Re: Semaphore assembly-code bug]

From: Z Smith (plinius_at_comcast.net)
Date: 10/31/04

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To: Diego Calleja <diegocg@teleline.es>

    Diego Calleja wrote:

    > I don't think it's so bad (ie: it could be _worse_)

    But not everyone can tolerate today's level of bloat.

    Imagine a small charity in a rural town in Bolivia or
    Colorado. They have no budget for computers and no one
    is offering donations. A local person put Linux on their 200 MHz
    system after Windows crashed and the Windows CD couldn't
    be found, but he can't put KDE or Gnome on it as well because
    that would bring it to a crawl. The only way to make the
    computer usable is to install an old distribution of Linux
    from 1998 which has Netscape 4 but no office app. Eventually
    they will give up on the computer and just throw it out,
    because they can't wait forever for programmers to write
    non-bloated software to make good use of their system.
    The machine ends up at a landfill where it leeches chemicals
    into the local water supply.

    Zack
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