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Simon Waters wrote: > > Probably a fair number of people in the GLUG have the skills (or > aptitude to learn said skills, I'm sure Robin does) to take the bloat > out of a whole host of common free software products, but for the few > seconds it will save them each day personally it probably isn't worth it > for them. I'm *very guilty* of bloat myself. A particular project at work springs to mind been working on it since 2001 and it is real *bloatware* I have rewrote large sections and cleaned things a bit but it is truly shocking. Time is a large factor as you have pointed out Simon, I just don't have enough hours to fix it up. But i stick firmly by the lack of planning and management have lead to bloat, mostly my planning and management :-) > I could spend three or four days weeding 30 or 40 MB out of the memory > footprint of Thunderbird (probably need a few days extra to familiarise > myself with build tools and such like), or I could buy an extra 256MB of > RAM for a minuscule fee. Bloat is down to simple economics. > Well just sometimes somebody gets an itch and patches something up like this. Some people do really have this level of pride in their code and other people just like tinkering. This is something that is only possible with open source, as the code is out there for the world to see, criticise, use and update. Robin
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