(OT) Hydraulics?

[Collins Richey]

On 2/17/06, Jerry McBride <mcbrides9 at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> I've seen some lousy mechanical designs over the years. It seems some
> designers are hell bent on making life difficult for those that have to
> service or repair what they give life too. I remember more than a few hot
> calls "out to the factory" to open up "dialogs" with brain dead engineers...
>
> Now I do tha same thing, but only it's software now....
>

The brain-dead designers of the open source world make sure that the
api and control parameters (and kernel modules) of the latest and
greatest incarnations are totally incompatible with what went before
and that there is no upgrade path without starting over from scratch.
At least M$ makes money from this practice <grin>.

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Collins Richey
      The agnostic dyslexic insomniac lies awake wondering if there is a dog.