Re: [VirtualGL-Users] Issues with Qt 5

[Peter A. <as...@ce...>]

On Sat, 25 Oct 2014, DRC wrote:

> (performance, perhaps), but after 18 years as a professional developer
> and 10 years as a professional open source developer, I have noticed a
> trend recently whereby developers seem to want to change things just for
> the sake of changing things (systemd, anyone?) and new code seems to be
> valued more than old, regardless of whether the new code actually
> represents an improvement for the end user.  I see projects re-inventing
> the whole wheel when just changing one of the spokes would be
> sufficient, or re-inventing the wheel so it can handle terrain that will
> only be encountered 1% of the time, or even worse, re-inventing the
> wheel because of the possibility of encountering terrain that, in
> reality, will likely never be encountered.  When I see this, it doesn't

I totally agree with you on this one. I guess people thinks it's more fun 
to work with new projects and new code, than to maintain old stuff. But 
this idea of "new" = "always better" is present in the entire industry; 
not just in the open source community.


/Still running Windows XP64 on my laptop. 
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