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Or, given this is a site for devs and entrepeneurs, do all of that except for accepting unoptimised stuff - do our best to create and highlight greater utility in older stuff.

The WordPerfect for Dos story fits in here: an awful lot of software seems to increase cycles (processing power used) without a proportional increase in utility.

Mind, this is a symptom really of how "we" have made a consumer society where companies can't exist without fitting into an ever tightening upgrade cycle -- that's incompatible with reducing energy use, reducing carbon footprint, reducing resource wastage and pollution.

We've made a sort of Skinner Box for society. It's not going well, but we've got enough distractions ...