"Every program attempts to expand until it becomes Twitter."
One of the recent new versions of Confluence incorporate status updates, and "following". It's based on:
Zawinski's Law of Software Envelopment (also known as Zawinski's Law) relates the pressure of popularity to the phenomenon of software bloat:
Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.—Jamie Zawinski,
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski.
1 comment:
Good find/observation.
It's the copy-what's-popular aspect of so much of life these days.
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