[trinovantes]

It definitely feels like survivorship bias. We only remember the good software of the past while forgetting the hundreds of buggy mess created by companies that are probably defunct by now

[Gigachad]

I wonder if people are forgetting that not long ago, it was acceptable and normal that your word processor could have a bug in it which would crash the entire OS. Or how almost everything was insecure by default.

[oblio]

Or your email client would open and execute every file attached and it would do so with root permissions.

[stonogo]

Nobody found that acceptable except computer programmers.

[Gigachad]

Well it didn’t really matter what users thought because that’s how it was. Modern programming and software is massively improved and the failure modes are much safer.

[chongli]

I remember those days. It was never acceptable. We just didn’t have any other choice.

[rhizome]

http://www.scriptarchive.com/formmail.html

[tluyben2]

Oracle?

[cestith]

Oracle is a marketing department and two law firms in a trench coat.