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		msandford on May 2, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Stop “Disrupting” Everything When dealing with software it's rarely the case that worse-is-better, more often it's better-is-better. Worse-is-better only comes up when the stuff already out there is very well done, polished, and too expensive for most people to afford.

_delirium on May 2, 2013 [–]

Software is the original worse-is-better domain: Richard P. Gabriel coined the term to describe competition between software packages.

msandford on May 2, 2013 | [–]

You're right of course, when dealing with desktop software packages. I was only thinking of the online web-startup stuff which is generally just plain better.

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