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Immortal Code

Posted by michael on from the put-it-out-of-its-misery dept.

ziani writes ""... Sometimes a piece of code is so elegant, so evolved, that it outlasts everything else." Nice article at Wired wondering how much great (and lousy) code is lost due to business failures."

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  1. Scansoft by hqm · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Scansoft's CEO is Paul Ricci, a slime-breathing pond-scum who used to be an executive at Xerox. It doesn't surprise me that they are giving the
    original creators of the software the shaft. Ricci managed to fail his way upwards out of Xerox, and is probably busy driving Scansoft slowly out of business now.