Quote to Note: An Open Source Developer Speaks Truth
August 10, 2021
Navigate to “Lessons Learned from 15 Years of SumatraPDF, an Open Source Windows App.” Please, read the article. It is excellent and applicable to commercial software as well.
Here’s the quote I circled and enhanced with an exclamation point:
… changing things takes effort and the path of least resistance is to do nothing.
Keep this statement in mind when Microsoft says it has enhanced the security of its updating method or when Google explains that it has improved its search algorithm.
The author of “Lessons Learned…” quotes Jeff Bezos (the cowboy hat wearing multi billionaire who sent interesting images which were stunning I have heard) as saying:
There will never be a time when users want bloated and slow apps so being small and fast is a permanent advantage.
I would add that moving data rapidly out of an AWS module evokes an Arnold corollary:
Speed costs more, often a lot more.
The essay is a good one, and I recommend that you read it, not just the quotes I reproduced in this positive comment about the content.
Stephen E Arnold, August 10, 2021
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