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by checktheorder 2506 days ago
I was thinking more along the lines of removing features to simplify maintenance, Gnome 3 style.

"Good news, General. We've found a way to lower maintenance costs in the cockpit systems by 10% if we removed this thing here on the blueprints, so we've already gone ahead with that change."

"But that's the emergency ejection system!"

"Yes, and our data indicates that it's almost never used. It doesn't really make sense to devote manpower to keeping a system running that few people ever need. If we get rid of it, we can free up developer-hours to making the canopy opening/closing action a little smoother. Everyone uses the canopy."

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“There is no need to have a system that is not needed at all if our plane is done perfectly in the first place”
Red Hat's new D-BUS service Fighter-Kit and systemd-missiled will address these shortcomings.