alt Hacker NewsCommercial software polish is lipstick on a pig. A pig that will never be anything else and will eventually die as a pig.
Ugly os software at least has potential to grow internally. Long lived commercial software is a totting carcass with fresh coat of paint every now and then.
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DonHopkins • last Saturday at 2:34 PM
Worse than lipstick on a pig is lipstick all the way down, with no pork, like the user interfaces coming out of Apple.
Yet, the Year of XYZ software seldom comes, the usual cheering of tools like Blender, often forgets its origin as commercial product and existing userbase.
Someone has to pay the bills for development effort, and when it based on volunteer work, it is mostly followers and not innovators.