[superdavid]

Very reminiscent of a Joel on Software article

[burrows]

Inflammatory and pragmatically useless?

[superdavid]

That too, but more specifically: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html

In that article, he talks about Netscape's biggest mistake being the decision to rebuild from scratch for version 5 (which went on to become the Mozilla suite).